FORR vs. UIS, JFIN, NVEC, KODK, BBAI, FARO, SOHU, OUST, MIXT, and AVNW
Should you be buying Forrester Research stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Forrester Research include Unisys (UIS), Jiayin Group (JFIN), NVE (NVEC), Eastman Kodak (KODK), BigBear.ai (BBAI), FARO Technologies (FARO), Sohu.com (SOHU), Ouster (OUST), MiX Telematics (MIXT), and Aviat Networks (AVNW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) and Unisys (NYSE:UIS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
Forrester Research currently has a consensus price target of $37.00, suggesting a potential upside of 96.60%. Given Forrester Research's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Forrester Research is more favorable than Unisys.
Forrester Research has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unisys. Unisys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Forrester Research, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.2% of Forrester Research shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.9% of Unisys shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.2% of Forrester Research shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Unisys shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Forrester Research has a net margin of 0.10% compared to Unisys' net margin of -20.37%. Forrester Research's return on equity of 9.30% beat Unisys' return on equity.
Forrester Research has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unisys has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Forrester Research received 61 more outperform votes than Unisys when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.56% of users gave Unisys an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave Forrester Research an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Forrester Research had 1 more articles in the media than Unisys. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Forrester Research and 4 mentions for Unisys. Unisys' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Forrester Research's score of 0.43 indicating that Unisys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Forrester Research beats Unisys on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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