STCN vs. HGBL, RSSS, MCHX, EGIO, DHX, NCTY, XELA, ZFOX, RMNI, and OPRX
Should you be buying Steel Connect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Connect include Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), Marchex (MCHX), Edgio (EGIO), DHI Group (DHX), The9 (NCTY), Exela Technologies (XELA), ZeroFox (ZFOX), Rimini Street (RMNI), and OptimizeRx (OPRX).
Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) and Steel Connect (NASDAQ:STCN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Heritage Global has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Steel Connect has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Heritage Global had 3 more articles in the media than Steel Connect. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Heritage Global and 0 mentions for Steel Connect. Heritage Global's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Steel Connect's score of 0.29 indicating that Steel Connect is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
33.5% of Heritage Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.3% of Steel Connect shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Heritage Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Steel Connect shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Heritage Global currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 165.49%. Given Steel Connect's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Heritage Global is more favorable than Steel Connect.
Steel Connect received 156 more outperform votes than Heritage Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Steel Connect an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Heritage Global an outperform vote.
Steel Connect has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Global. Heritage Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Connect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Heritage Global has a net margin of 20.40% compared to Heritage Global's net margin of 12.23%. Heritage Global's return on equity of 39.04% beat Steel Connect's return on equity.
Summary
Steel Connect beats Heritage Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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