ScanSource (SCSC) Competitors

Agilysys (NASDAQ:AGYS) and ScanSource (NASDAQ:SCSC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in AGYS or SCSC?

88.0% of Agilysys shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of ScanSource shares are held by institutional investors. 19.3% of Agilysys shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of ScanSource shares are held by 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.

Do analysts prefer AGYS or SCSC?

Agilysys currently has a consensus price target of $137.80, indicating a potential downside of 2.78%. ScanSource has a consensus price target of $36.00, indicating a potential downside of 29.44%. Given Agilysys' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Agilysys is more favorable than ScanSource.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Agilysys	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
ScanSource	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor AGYS or SCSC?

Agilysys received 86 more outperform votes than ScanSource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.67% of users gave Agilysys an outperform vote while only 57.25% of users gave ScanSource an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Agilysys	Outperform Votes 319 63.67%	Underperform Votes 182 36.33%
ScanSource	Outperform Votes 233 57.25%	Underperform Votes 174 42.75%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, AGYS or SCSC?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Agilysys	$237.46M	16.68	$86.19M	$3.51	40.38
ScanSource	$3.26B	0.37	$77.06M	$3.12	16.35

Is AGYS or SCSC more profitable?

Agilysys has a net margin of 37.54% compared to ScanSource's net margin of 2.49%. Agilysys' return on equity of 10.53% beat ScanSource's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Agilysys	37.54%	10.53%	6.91%
ScanSource	2.49%	8.53%	4.48%

Does the media refer more to AGYS or SCSC?

In the previous week, Agilysys had 11 more articles in the media than ScanSource. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Agilysys and 1 mentions for ScanSource. ScanSource's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Agilysys' score of 0.96 indicating that ScanSource is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Agilysys	6 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ScanSource	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, AGYS or SCSC?

Agilysys has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ScanSource has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Agilysys beats ScanSource on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.