III vs. BWMN, HCKT, SST, VCSA, DLHC, NOTE, FNGR, MAPS, RCMT, and BTBT
Should you be buying Information Services Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Information Services Group include Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), The Hackett Group (HCKT), System1 (SST), Vacasa (VCSA), DLH (DLHC), FiscalNote (NOTE), FingerMotion (FNGR), WM Technology (MAPS), RCM Technologies (RCMT), and Bit Digital (BTBT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Information Services Group (NASDAQ:III) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Information Services Group presently has a consensus target price of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.82%. Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus target price of $46.33, indicating a potential upside of 41.87%. Given Bowman Consulting Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Information Services Group.
Information Services Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bowman Consulting Group. Information Services Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bowman Consulting Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Information Services Group has a net margin of -0.26% compared to Bowman Consulting Group's net margin of -2.43%. Information Services Group's return on equity of 7.81% beat Bowman Consulting Group's return on equity.
73.1% of Information Services Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Information Services Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Information Services Group had 4 more articles in the media than Bowman Consulting Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Information Services Group and 8 mentions for Bowman Consulting Group. Bowman Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Information Services Group's score of 0.12 indicating that Bowman Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Information Services Group received 361 more outperform votes than Bowman Consulting Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.56% of users gave Information Services Group an outperform vote while only 58.97% of users gave Bowman Consulting Group an outperform vote.
Information Services Group has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Information Services Group beats Bowman Consulting Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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