PMTS vs. INSE, PAYS, IBEX, SEZL, PFMT, AIRJ, OB, QRHC, MOND, and PLBC
Should you be buying CPI Card Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CPI Card Group include Inspired Entertainment (INSE), Paysign (PAYS), IBEX (IBEX), Sezzle (SEZL), Performant Financial (PFMT), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), Outbrain (OB), Quest Resource (QRHC), Mondee (MOND), and Plumas Bancorp (PLBC).
CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) and Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ:INSE) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
CPI Card Group has a net margin of 4.26% compared to Inspired Entertainment's net margin of 0.56%. Inspired Entertainment's return on equity of -9.10% beat CPI Card Group's return on equity.
CPI Card Group currently has a consensus price target of $35.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.51%. Inspired Entertainment has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 80.18%. Given Inspired Entertainment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Inspired Entertainment is more favorable than CPI Card Group.
22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of CPI Card Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Inspired Entertainment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CPI Card Group has higher revenue and earnings than Inspired Entertainment. CPI Card Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inspired Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inspired Entertainment received 116 more outperform votes than CPI Card Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.29% of users gave CPI Card Group an outperform vote while only 58.47% of users gave Inspired Entertainment an outperform vote.
CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspired Entertainment has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Inspired Entertainment had 12 more articles in the media than CPI Card Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Inspired Entertainment and 0 mentions for CPI Card Group. Inspired Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat CPI Card Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Inspired Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Inspired Entertainment beats CPI Card Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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