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Liquidity Services (LQDT) Competitors

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$25.00 -0.35 (-1.38%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

LQDT vs. PRTH, EEX, LLNW, RGP, RMNI, ZD, YELP, CMPR, QNST, and OPEN

Should you be buying Liquidity Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liquidity Services include Priority Technology (PRTH), Emerald (EEX), Limelight Networks (LLNW), Resources Connection (RGP), Rimini Street (RMNI), Ziff Davis (ZD), Yelp (YELP), Cimpress (CMPR), QuinStreet (QNST), and Opendoor Technologies (OPEN).

Liquidity Services vs.

Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) and Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.

Liquidity Services currently has a consensus price target of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.00%. Priority Technology has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.50%. Given Priority Technology's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Priority Technology is more favorable than Liquidity Services.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Liquidity Services
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Priority Technology
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Liquidity Services$314.46M2.43$20.98M$0.6339.68
Priority Technology$755.61M0.87-$1.31M-$0.42-20.38

71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of Priority Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Liquidity Services has a net margin of 5.91% compared to Priority Technology's net margin of 1.96%. Liquidity Services' return on equity of 18.47% beat Priority Technology's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Liquidity Services5.91% 18.47% 10.23%
Priority Technology 1.96%-15.86%1.52%

Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Priority Technology has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Liquidity Services received 421 more outperform votes than Priority Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.10% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 47.06% of users gave Priority Technology an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Liquidity ServicesOutperform Votes
445
69.10%
Underperform Votes
199
30.90%
Priority TechnologyOutperform Votes
24
47.06%
Underperform Votes
27
52.94%

In the previous week, Priority Technology had 1 more articles in the media than Liquidity Services. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Priority Technology and 4 mentions for Liquidity Services. Priority Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Liquidity Services' score of -0.09 indicating that Priority Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Liquidity Services
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Priority Technology
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Liquidity Services beats Priority Technology on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LQDT vs. The Competition

MetricLiquidity ServicesBusiness services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$774M$20.69B$6.87B$8.87B
Dividend YieldN/A2.50%2.93%4.06%
P/E Ratio39.6822.7237.0314.18
Price / Sales2.4316.45175.4789.42
Price / Cash18.9430.9623.9232.79
Price / Book4.755.224.865.12
Net Income$20.98M$515.30M$123.43M$225.99M
7 Day Performance-0.04%8.27%0.13%-1.32%
1 Month Performance12.92%6.25%8.31%0.60%
1 Year Performance20.48%49.51%30.31%26.23%

Liquidity Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LQDT
Liquidity Services
1.5722 of 5 stars
$25.00
-1.4%
$27.00
+8.0%
+21.4%$774M$314.46M39.68740
PRTH
Priority Technology
4.1631 of 5 stars
$8.56
-4.7%
$11.00
+28.5%
+148.1%$692.95M$755.61M0.00790
EEX
Emerald
1.9462 of 5 stars
$4.68
-1.5%
$7.90
+68.8%
-14.6%$949.95M$382.80M-8.67600
LLNW
Limelight Networks
N/AN/AN/AN/A$339.96M$217.63M-6.31556Analyst Forecast
RGP
Resources Connection
4.3273 of 5 stars
$8.29
+0.4%
$13.00
+56.8%
-42.0%$276.47M$632.80M23.033,376
RMNI
Rimini Street
2.4597 of 5 stars
$1.96
-0.5%
$4.50
+130.2%
-37.5%$179.11M$431.50M0.002,120Positive News
ZD
Ziff Davis
4.2195 of 5 stars
$56.04
+1.0%
$71.29
+27.2%
-15.1%$2.37B$1.36B47.494,200Positive News
YELP
Yelp
3.9579 of 5 stars
$35.84
flat
$37.00
+3.2%
-22.7%$2.36B$1.34B21.464,872
CMPR
Cimpress
4.8805 of 5 stars
$78.38
+1.8%
$114.50
+46.1%
+8.0%$1.94B$3.29B13.4716,000Positive News
QNST
QuinStreet
4.2769 of 5 stars
$21.75
+2.9%
$29.00
+33.3%
+96.3%$1.19B$613.51M0.00899Analyst Upgrade
OPEN
Opendoor Technologies
3.654 of 5 stars
$1.63
+1.9%
$2.84
+74.1%
-34.8%$1.14B$6.95B0.001,982

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This page (NASDAQ:LQDT) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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