DLHC vs. RCMT, HQI, BGSF, HSON, TBI, TTEC, CCRN, VCSA, SST, and III
Should you be buying DLH stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLH include RCM Technologies (RCMT), HireQuest (HQI), BGSF (BGSF), Hudson Global (HSON), TrueBlue (TBI), TTEC (TTEC), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Vacasa (VCSA), System1 (SST), and Information Services Group (III). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) and RCM Technologies (NASDAQ:RCMT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
67.3% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of RCM Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of DLH shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of RCM Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
DLH has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RCM Technologies has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
RCM Technologies has a consensus target price of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Given RCM Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RCM Technologies is more favorable than DLH.
In the previous week, RCM Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than DLH. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for RCM Technologies and 2 mentions for DLH. RCM Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat DLH's score of 0.30 indicating that RCM Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RCM Technologies has a net margin of 6.32% compared to DLH's net margin of 0.76%. RCM Technologies' return on equity of 74.07% beat DLH's return on equity.
RCM Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DLH. RCM Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DLH received 138 more outperform votes than RCM Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.24% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 64.53% of users gave RCM Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
RCM Technologies beats DLH on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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