CNDT vs. VVI, IIIV, TTGT, RDWR, LQDT, RILY, ACCD, QNST, RPAY, and SEZL
Should you be buying Conduent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduent include Viad (VVI), i3 Verticals (IIIV), TechTarget (TTGT), Radware (RDWR), Liquidity Services (LQDT), B. Riley Financial (RILY), Accolade (ACCD), QuinStreet (QNST), Repay (RPAY), and Sezzle (SEZL).
Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) and Viad (NYSE:VVI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Conduent presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 162.39%. Viad has a consensus price target of $44.33, suggesting a potential upside of 30.12%. Given Conduent's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than Viad.
In the previous week, Conduent had 8 more articles in the media than Viad. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Conduent and 3 mentions for Viad. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Viad's score of -0.37 indicating that Conduent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Viad has a net margin of 0.61% compared to Conduent's net margin of -5.13%. Viad's return on equity of 12.70% beat Conduent's return on equity.
77.3% of Conduent shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Viad shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Viad shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Viad received 286 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.52% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 30.00% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
Conduent has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Viad has a beta of 1.97, meaning that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Viad has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Conduent. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Viad beats Conduent on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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