SEZL vs. PHR, EEX, MAX, PSFE, RSKD, ADV, QNST, RPAY, FVRR, and RDWR
Should you be buying Sezzle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sezzle include Phreesia (PHR), Emerald (EEX), MediaAlpha (MAX), Paysafe (PSFE), Riskified (RSKD), Advantage Solutions (ADV), QuinStreet (QNST), Repay (RPAY), Fiverr International (FVRR), and Radware (RDWR). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Phreesia (NYSE:PHR) and Sezzle (NASDAQ:SEZL) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
92.1% of Phreesia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Sezzle shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Phreesia shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.7% of Sezzle shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sezzle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Phreesia. Phreesia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sezzle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Phreesia presently has a consensus target price of $31.38, indicating a potential upside of 65.88%. Given Sezzle's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Phreesia is more favorable than Sezzle.
In the previous week, Phreesia had 12 more articles in the media than Sezzle. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Phreesia and 6 mentions for Sezzle. Phreesia's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Sezzle's score of 0.35 indicating that Sezzle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Phreesia received 127 more outperform votes than Sezzle when rated by MarketBeat users.
Sezzle has a net margin of 7.79% compared to Sezzle's net margin of -31.87%. Phreesia's return on equity of 62.26% beat Sezzle's return on equity.
Summary
Sezzle beats Phreesia on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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