LQDT vs. ACCD, IMXI, VVI, SEZL, RGP, CNDT, EEX, SHAP, PRTH, and PAYS
Should you be buying Liquidity Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liquidity Services include Accolade (ACCD), International Money Express (IMXI), Viad (VVI), Sezzle (SEZL), Resources Connection (RGP), Conduent (CNDT), Emerald (EEX), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Priority Technology (PRTH), and Paysign (PAYS). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) and Liquidity Services (NASDAQ:LQDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Accolade currently has a consensus target price of $14.14, suggesting a potential upside of 89.08%. Liquidity Services has a consensus target price of $27.00, suggesting a potential upside of 37.13%. Given Liquidity Services' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Accolade is more favorable than Liquidity Services.
Accolade has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liquidity Services has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.0% of Accolade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Liquidity Services shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Accolade shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.8% of Liquidity Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Accolade had 2 more articles in the media than Liquidity Services. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Accolade and 6 mentions for Liquidity Services. Liquidity Services' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Accolade's score of 0.34 indicating that Accolade is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liquidity Services has a net margin of 6.30% compared to Liquidity Services' net margin of -24.09%. Accolade's return on equity of 18.51% beat Liquidity Services' return on equity.
Liquidity Services received 349 more outperform votes than Accolade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.95% of users gave Liquidity Services an outperform vote while only 58.13% of users gave Accolade an outperform vote.
Liquidity Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accolade. Accolade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liquidity Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Liquidity Services beats Accolade on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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