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Quarterhill (QTRH) Competitors

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QTRH vs. KELYA, HKD, CCRN, CNDT, PAYS, LSAK, IBEX, AIRS, BLDE, and GAMB

Should you be buying Quarterhill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quarterhill include Kelly Services (KELYA), AMTD Digital (HKD), Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Conduent (CNDT), Paysign (PAYS), Lesaka Technologies (LSAK), IBEX (IBEX), AirSculpt Technologies (AIRS), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), and Gambling.com Group (GAMB). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.

Quarterhill vs. Its Competitors

Kelly Services (NASDAQ:KELYA) and Quarterhill (NASDAQ:QTRH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

76.3% of Kelly Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Quarterhill shares are owned by institutional investors. 48.1% of Kelly Services shares are owned 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.

Kelly Services has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quarterhill has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Kelly Services has a net margin of -0.14% compared to Quarterhill's net margin of -11.31%. Kelly Services' return on equity of 5.65% beat Quarterhill's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kelly Services-0.14% 5.65% 2.72%
Quarterhill -11.31%-6.62%-5.54%

Kelly Services has higher revenue and earnings than Quarterhill. Kelly Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quarterhill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kelly Services$4.33B0.11-$600K-$0.60-23.58
Quarterhill$77.40M1.46-$49.12M-$0.24-3.98

In the previous week, Kelly Services had 5 more articles in the media than Quarterhill. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kelly Services and 0 mentions for Quarterhill. Kelly Services' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Quarterhill's score of 0.00 indicating that Kelly Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Kelly Services Positive
Quarterhill Neutral

Kelly Services currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 76.68%. Given Kelly Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Kelly Services is more favorable than Quarterhill.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Kelly Services
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Quarterhill
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Kelly Services pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Quarterhill pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Kelly Services pays out -50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Quarterhill pays out -16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Summary

Kelly Services beats Quarterhill on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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QTRH vs. The Competition

MetricQuarterhillPatent Owners & Lessors IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$113.36MN/A$22.36B$9.72B
Dividend Yield3.33%9.55%2.83%4.12%
P/E Ratio-3.98N/A28.1524.75
Price / Sales1.46N/A41.6197.82
Price / CashN/AN/A27.1558.47
Price / Book0.55N/A5.395.59
Net Income-$49.12M-$1.06M$198.75M$265.99M

Quarterhill Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
QTRH
Quarterhill
N/A$0.95
+0.5%
N/A-19.0%$113.36M$77.40M-3.98361
KELYA
Kelly Services
4.4999 of 5 stars
$12.22
+0.2%
$25.00
+104.6%
-27.2%$425.63M$4.33B-20.374,200News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
HKD
AMTD Digital
0.1125 of 5 stars
$1.69
-1.7%
N/A-40.8%$423.70M$20.44M0.0050
CCRN
Cross Country Healthcare
3.4314 of 5 stars
$12.84
-0.2%
$17.93
+39.6%
-16.8%$421.92M$1.34B-24.238,205Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
CNDT
Conduent
2.5235 of 5 stars
$2.46
-2.0%
N/A-19.5%$406.19M$3.36B1.8056,000Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
PAYS
Paysign
3.6471 of 5 stars
$7.12
-0.6%
$8.06
+13.2%
+23.3%$388.20M$58.38M64.7380News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
LSAK
Lesaka Technologies
N/A$4.60
-2.1%
N/A+5.4%$381.87M$564.22M-5.612,531
IBEX
IBEX
1.5847 of 5 stars
$27.89
-1.0%
$27.00
-3.2%
+83.3%$376.57M$508.57M12.1830,000
AIRS
AirSculpt Technologies
0.5957 of 5 stars
$6.02
-0.2%
$3.75
-37.7%
+56.8%$376.49M$180.35M-24.08240Earnings Report
BLDE
Blade Air Mobility
3.0255 of 5 stars
$4.16
-6.1%
$6.25
+50.2%
+30.9%$358.91M$248.69M-12.23130Earnings Report
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
GAMB
Gambling.com Group
3.9736 of 5 stars
$10.13
-1.3%
$17.88
+76.5%
+12.4%$356.67M$127.18M10.44230Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:QTRH) was last updated on 8/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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