STCN vs. HGBL, RSSS, ALJJ, NCTY, XELA, TTEC, V, MA, ADP, and FI
Should you be buying Steel Connect stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Steel Connect include Heritage Global (HGBL), Research Solutions (RSSS), ALJ Regional (ALJJ), The9 (NCTY), Exela Technologies (XELA), TTEC (TTEC), Visa (V), Mastercard (MA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), and Fiserv (FI).
Steel Connect (NASDAQ:STCN) and Heritage Global (NASDAQ:HGBL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Steel Connect received 156 more outperform votes than Heritage Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.31% of users gave Steel Connect an outperform vote while only 46.15% of users gave Heritage Global an outperform vote.
Heritage Global has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 163.16%. Given Heritage Global's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Heritage Global is more favorable than Steel Connect.
In the previous week, Heritage Global had 1 more articles in the media than Steel Connect. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Heritage Global and 3 mentions for Steel Connect. Steel Connect's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Heritage Global's score of 1.18 indicating that Steel Connect is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Steel Connect has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Global has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
47.3% of Steel Connect shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Heritage Global shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Steel Connect shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Heritage Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Heritage Global has a net margin of 20.40% compared to Steel Connect's net margin of 12.23%. Steel Connect's return on equity of 39.04% beat Heritage Global's return on equity.
Steel Connect has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Global. Heritage Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Steel Connect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Steel Connect beats Heritage Global on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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