RSSS vs. SOHU, ZH, IBEX, MPLN, MXCT, GRVY, OOMA, NRC, EGHT, and BWMN
Should you be buying Research Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Research Solutions include Sohu.com (SOHU), Zhihu (ZH), IBEX (IBEX), MultiPlan (MPLN), MaxCyte (MXCT), Gravity (GRVY), Ooma (OOMA), National Research (NRC), 8X8 (EGHT), and Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Research Solutions vs.
Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS) and Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
Research Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sohu.com. Research Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sohu.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
33.6% of Research Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of Sohu.com shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Research Solutions shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Sohu.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sohu.com received 201 more outperform votes than Research Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.57% of users gave Research Solutions an outperform vote while only 46.70% of users gave Sohu.com an outperform vote.
Research Solutions has a net margin of -8.41% compared to Sohu.com's net margin of -16.76%. Research Solutions' return on equity of -6.59% beat Sohu.com's return on equity.
Research Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 71.34%. Given Research Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Research Solutions is more favorable than Sohu.com.
Research Solutions has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sohu.com has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Research Solutions had 6 more articles in the media than Sohu.com. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Research Solutions and 6 mentions for Sohu.com. Research Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Sohu.com's score of 0.26 indicating that Research Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Research Solutions beats Sohu.com on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RSSS) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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