SPOK vs. PCYG, BLNK, VNET, EGHT, AUDC, MCG, DOMO, TGAN, ONTF, and WBX
Should you be buying Spok stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Spok include Park City Group (PCYG), Blink Charging (BLNK), VNET Group (VNET), 8X8 (EGHT), AudioCodes (AUDC), Membership Collective Group (MCG), Domo (DOMO), Transphorm (TGAN), ON24 (ONTF), and Wallbox (WBX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Park City Group (NASDAQ:PCYG) and Spok (NASDAQ:SPOK) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Park City Group has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spok has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Spok had 2 more articles in the media than Park City Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Spok and 3 mentions for Park City Group. Park City Group's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Spok's score of 0.21 indicating that Spok is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Spok has higher revenue and earnings than Park City Group. Spok is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park City Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
26.4% of Park City Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.8% of Spok shares are owned by institutional investors. 42.0% of Park City Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Spok shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Park City Group received 28 more outperform votes than Spok when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.95% of users gave Park City Group an outperform vote while only 59.64% of users gave Spok an outperform vote.
Park City Group pays an annual dividend of $0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Spok pays an annual dividend of $1.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Park City Group pays out 22.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Spok pays out 150.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Park City Group has a net margin of 29.27% compared to Park City Group's net margin of 11.93%. Spok's return on equity of 12.48% beat Park City Group's return on equity.
Summary
Park City Group beats Spok on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SPOK and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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