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HireQuest (HQI) Competitors

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$13.90 +0.04 (+0.29%)
(As of 12/24/2024 05:19 PM ET)

HQI vs. YEXT, RPAY, UXIN, IIIV, MAX, PRTH, RMR, CNDT, IMXI, and MEG

Should you be buying HireQuest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HireQuest include Yext (YEXT), Repay (RPAY), Uxin (UXIN), i3 Verticals (IIIV), MediaAlpha (MAX), Priority Technology (PRTH), The RMR Group (RMR), Conduent (CNDT), International Money Express (IMXI), and Montrose Environmental Group (MEG). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

HireQuest vs.

Yext (NYSE:YEXT) and HireQuest (NASDAQ:HQI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.

Yext has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HireQuest has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

HireQuest has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yext. Yext is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HireQuest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yext$408.97M2.00-$2.63M-$0.15-42.67
HireQuest$36.28M5.36$6.14M$0.11126.36

In the previous week, HireQuest had 1 more articles in the media than Yext. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for HireQuest and 0 mentions for Yext. HireQuest's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Yext's score of 0.00 indicating that HireQuest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Yext Neutral
HireQuest Very Positive

Yext received 387 more outperform votes than HireQuest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave HireQuest an outperform vote while only 66.78% of users gave Yext an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
YextOutperform Votes
402
66.78%
Underperform Votes
200
33.22%
HireQuestOutperform Votes
15
68.18%
Underperform Votes
7
31.82%

HireQuest has a net margin of 4.04% compared to Yext's net margin of -4.64%. HireQuest's return on equity of 11.02% beat Yext's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Yext-4.64% -11.10% -3.49%
HireQuest 4.04%11.02%6.69%

71.0% of Yext shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.0% of HireQuest shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Yext shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.9% of HireQuest shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Yext presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 40.63%. HireQuest has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 33.09%. Given Yext's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Yext is more favorable than HireQuest.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Yext
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
HireQuest
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

HireQuest beats Yext on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HQI vs. The Competition

MetricHireQuestHelp supply services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$194.60M$1.21B$7.27B$9.26B
Dividend Yield1.71%3.00%2.30%4.29%
P/E Ratio126.3636.5428.3617.28
Price / Sales5.360.70478.77119.73
Price / Cash18.489.0331.4137.83
Price / Book3.084.555.944.93
Net Income$6.14M$70.14M$125.08M$225.34M
7 Day Performance0.14%0.62%4.55%4.14%
1 Month Performance-10.44%-0.60%5.86%1.16%
1 Year Performance-15.66%-28.90%18.69%16.98%

HireQuest Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HQI
HireQuest
3.6711 of 5 stars
$13.90
+0.3%
$18.50
+33.1%
-15.7%$194.04M$36.28M126.3673,000Positive News
YEXT
Yext
2.4911 of 5 stars
$6.42
-1.2%
$9.00
+40.2%
+8.8%$819.32M$404.32M-43.331,100
RPAY
Repay
3.3146 of 5 stars
$8.34
+2.2%
$12.83
+53.9%
-7.3%$814.23M$296.63M-9.38580Analyst Revision
UXIN
Uxin
0.5968 of 5 stars
$4.15
-1.2%
N/A-33.8%$779.45M$190.40M-0.21810
IIIV
i3 Verticals
4.6593 of 5 stars
$22.47
+0.1%
$27.14
+20.8%
+7.0%$753.64M$229.92M5.041,480
MAX
MediaAlpha
4.192 of 5 stars
$11.29
+5.1%
$24.14
+113.8%
-5.1%$752.64M$681.23M67.59160Gap Up
PRTH
Priority Technology
3.0133 of 5 stars
$9.13
+0.9%
$13.00
+42.4%
+213.0%$704.84M$755.61M-21.55790Gap Up
RMR
The RMR Group
3.4011 of 5 stars
$21.76
-1.0%
$32.00
+47.1%
-24.7%$692.97M$897.61M15.98600
CNDT
Conduent
3.4551 of 5 stars
$4.23
+0.5%
$9.00
+112.8%
+15.3%$676.34M$3.51B1.8559,000
IMXI
International Money Express
4.4471 of 5 stars
$21.49
+0.9%
$27.00
+25.6%
-6.1%$668.32M$665.67M11.90880News Coverage
MEG
Montrose Environmental Group
3.4853 of 5 stars
$18.21
+10.1%
$36.60
+101.0%
-45.8%$624.62M$673.08M-12.103,100

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This page (NASDAQ:HQI) was last updated on 12/25/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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