CASS vs. IIIV, IMXI, VVI, OLO, ZH, RDWR, RSKD, QNST, RMNI, and LC
Should you be buying Cass Information Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cass Information Systems include i3 Verticals (IIIV), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), OLO (OLO), Zhihu (ZH), Radware (RDWR), Riskified (RSKD), QuinStreet (QNST), Rimini Street (RMNI), and LendingClub (LC).
i3 Verticals (NASDAQ:IIIV) and Cass Information Systems (NASDAQ:CASS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.
84.2% of i3 Verticals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of Cass Information Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 34.0% of i3 Verticals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Cass Information Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cass Information Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than i3 Verticals. Cass Information Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than i3 Verticals, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
i3 Verticals has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cass Information Systems has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cass Information Systems received 40 more outperform votes than i3 Verticals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.76% of users gave Cass Information Systems an outperform vote while only 60.82% of users gave i3 Verticals an outperform vote.
Cass Information Systems has a net margin of 15.21% compared to Cass Information Systems' net margin of 0.63%. i3 Verticals' return on equity of 13.67% beat Cass Information Systems' return on equity.
i3 Verticals presently has a consensus price target of $27.57, suggesting a potential upside of 41.03%. Cass Information Systems has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.67%. Given Cass Information Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe i3 Verticals is more favorable than Cass Information Systems.
In the previous week, i3 Verticals had 3 more articles in the media than Cass Information Systems. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for i3 Verticals and 3 mentions for Cass Information Systems. i3 Verticals' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Cass Information Systems' score of 0.27 indicating that Cass Information Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
i3 Verticals beats Cass Information Systems on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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