LUNA vs. PSQH, CURR, AMWL, RSSS, STFS, QRHC, VCSA, NOTV, DLHC, and VERI
Should you be buying Luna Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luna Innovations include PSQ (PSQH), CURRENC Group (CURR), American Well (AMWL), Research Solutions (RSSS), Star Fashion Culture (STFS), Quest Resource (QRHC), Vacasa (VCSA), Inotiv (NOTV), DLH (DLHC), and Veritone (VERI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Luna Innovations vs.
PSQ (NYSE:PSQH) and Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
PSQ presently has a consensus price target of $5.75, suggesting a potential upside of 23.63%. Luna Innovations has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 647.66%. Given Luna Innovations' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Luna Innovations is more favorable than PSQ.
PSQ has a beta of -0.27, meaning that its share price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Luna Innovations has higher revenue and earnings than PSQ.
Luna Innovations received 194 more outperform votes than PSQ when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave PSQ an outperform vote while only 57.35% of users gave Luna Innovations an outperform vote.
17.3% of PSQ shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Luna Innovations shares are held by institutional investors. 32.1% of PSQ shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Luna Innovations shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, PSQ had 6 more articles in the media than Luna Innovations. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PSQ and 0 mentions for Luna Innovations. PSQ's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Luna Innovations' score of 0.00 indicating that PSQ is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Luna Innovations has a net margin of 0.00% compared to PSQ's net margin of -227.52%. Luna Innovations' return on equity of 0.00% beat PSQ's return on equity.
Summary
Luna Innovations beats PSQ on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LUNA) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
