SoundThinking (SSTI) Competitors

EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts prefer EVER or SSTI?

EverQuote presently has a consensus target price of $31.60, suggesting a potential upside of 78.53%. SoundThinking has a consensus target price of $21.20, suggesting a potential upside of 72.50%. Given EverQuote's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe EverQuote is more favorable than SoundThinking.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EverQuote	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
SoundThinking	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.83

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, EVER or SSTI?

SoundThinking has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EverQuote. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EverQuote, 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
EverQuote	$408.44M	1.53	-$51.29M	$0.34	52.06
SoundThinking	$104.67M	1.48	-$2.72M	-$0.12	-102.42

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EVER or SSTI?

SoundThinking received 312 more outperform votes than EverQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.64% of users gave EverQuote an outperform vote while only 68.44% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
EverQuote	Outperform Votes 48 71.64%	Underperform Votes 19 28.36%
SoundThinking	Outperform Votes 360 68.44%	Underperform Votes 166 31.56%

Does the media favor EVER or SSTI?

In the previous week, EverQuote had 1 more articles in the media than SoundThinking. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for EverQuote and 3 mentions for SoundThinking. EverQuote's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat SoundThinking's score of 0.47 indicating that EverQuote is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
EverQuote	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SoundThinking	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of EVER or SSTI?

91.5% of EverQuote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by institutional investors. 29.8% of EverQuote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of SoundThinking shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is EVER or SSTI more profitable?

EverQuote has a net margin of 3.31% compared to SoundThinking's net margin of -1.39%. EverQuote's return on equity of 13.94% beat SoundThinking's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
EverQuote	3.31%	13.94%	9.24%
SoundThinking	-1.39%	-8.74%	-4.57%

Which has more risk and volatility, EVER or SSTI?

EverQuote has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

EverQuote beats SoundThinking on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.