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$14.58 -0.70 (-4.57%)
Closing price 03/27/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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ACVA vs. ULS, MEDP, STN, WPP, BILI, HQY, GLOB, QXO, WSC, and LYFT

Should you be buying ACV Auctions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACV Auctions include UL Solutions (ULS), Medpace (MEDP), Stantec (STN), WPP (WPP), Bilibili (BILI), HealthEquity (HQY), Globant (GLOB), QXO (QXO), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), and Lyft (LYFT). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

ACV Auctions vs.

UL Solutions (NYSE:ULS) and ACV Auctions (NASDAQ:ACVA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

ACV Auctions received 54 more outperform votes than UL Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.29% of users gave UL Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave ACV Auctions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
UL SolutionsOutperform Votes
18
64.29%
Underperform Votes
10
35.71%
ACV AuctionsOutperform Votes
72
57.14%
Underperform Votes
54
42.86%

UL Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $51.45, indicating a potential downside of 7.37%. ACV Auctions has a consensus target price of $23.14, indicating a potential upside of 58.66%. Given ACV Auctions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ACV Auctions is more favorable than UL Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
UL Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
ACV Auctions
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.82

UL Solutions has a net margin of 11.36% compared to ACV Auctions' net margin of -12.51%. UL Solutions' return on equity of 44.52% beat ACV Auctions' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
UL Solutions11.36% 44.52% 12.48%
ACV Auctions -12.51%-12.94%-5.75%

In the previous week, ACV Auctions had 6 more articles in the media than UL Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for ACV Auctions and 9 mentions for UL Solutions. UL Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat ACV Auctions' score of 0.76 indicating that UL Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
UL Solutions
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ACV Auctions
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

88.6% of ACV Auctions shares are held by institutional investors. 8.5% of ACV Auctions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

UL Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than ACV Auctions. ACV Auctions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UL Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UL Solutions$2.87B3.87$260M$1.6234.29
ACV Auctions$637.16M3.86-$79.70M-$0.49-29.76

Summary

UL Solutions beats ACV Auctions on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACVA vs. The Competition

MetricACV AuctionsBusiness services IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$2.46B$21.42B$24.73B$8.06B
Dividend YieldN/A2.64%171.17%4.02%
P/E Ratio-29.7634.0823.8019.03
Price / Sales3.868.033.9393.17
Price / CashN/A32.3019.4934.64
Price / Book5.575.555.654.33
Net Income-$79.70M$681.45M$784.47M$247.06M
7 Day Performance-7.06%-0.66%1.41%-0.53%
1 Month Performance-9.37%-5.08%-2.90%-3.74%
1 Year Performance-22.68%-0.86%-2.10%1.72%

ACV Auctions Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACVA
ACV Auctions
2.9484 of 5 stars
$14.58
-4.6%
$23.14
+58.7%
-22.7%$2.46B$637.16M-29.762,000Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ULS
UL Solutions
1.911 of 5 stars
$53.72
+0.4%
$51.45
-4.2%
N/A$10.75B$2.87B33.1615,233Positive News
MEDP
Medpace
4.4341 of 5 stars
$330.59
+2.0%
$376.30
+13.8%
-21.5%$10.07B$2.11B26.175,900Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
STN
Stantec
3.067 of 5 stars
$83.41
+1.6%
N/A-0.4%$9.51B$7.50B37.9128,000Positive News
WPP
WPP
3.3769 of 5 stars
$39.58
-1.9%
N/A-16.9%$8.54B$14.74B6.63114,732Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
BILI
Bilibili
1.9432 of 5 stars
$19.87
flat
$21.11
+6.2%
+82.8%$8.23B$26.83B-44.1612,300Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Up
HQY
HealthEquity
4.2106 of 5 stars
$90.32
+6.4%
$113.69
+25.9%
+11.4%$7.83B$1.20B82.863,150Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
High Trading Volume
GLOB
Globant
4.7276 of 5 stars
$129.49
-0.9%
$219.71
+69.7%
-38.2%$5.70B$2.42B34.8127,100
QXO
QXO
1.3419 of 5 stars
$13.76
+8.6%
N/AN/A$5.63B$56.87M-1.51195Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
WSC
WillScot Mobile Mini
4.1305 of 5 stars
$30.60
+2.9%
$42.67
+39.4%
-36.4%$5.62B$2.40B204.014,500Positive News
LYFT
Lyft
4.7662 of 5 stars
$12.22
+2.0%
$17.03
+39.4%
-37.7%$5.11B$5.79B203.672,945Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
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This page (NASDAQ:ACVA) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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