VCSA vs. BWMN, OABI, GRVY, SOHU, NRC, OOMA, IBEX, EGHT, PMTS, and ABSI
Should you be buying Vacasa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vacasa include Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), OmniAb (OABI), Gravity (GRVY), Sohu.com (SOHU), National Research (NRC), Ooma (OOMA), IBEX (IBEX), 8X8 (EGHT), CPI Card Group (PMTS), and Absci (ABSI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Vacasa vs.
Vacasa (NASDAQ:VCSA) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Vacasa has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vacasa currently has a consensus target price of $6.08, indicating a potential upside of 21.42%. Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus target price of $39.70, indicating a potential upside of 52.87%. Given Bowman Consulting Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Vacasa.
82.5% of Vacasa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.2% of Vacasa shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bowman Consulting Group had 2 more articles in the media than Vacasa. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bowman Consulting Group and 1 mentions for Vacasa. Bowman Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Vacasa's score of 0.00 indicating that Bowman Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bowman Consulting Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Vacasa. Bowman Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vacasa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bowman Consulting Group has a net margin of -2.62% compared to Vacasa's net margin of -10.18%. Bowman Consulting Group's return on equity of 3.76% beat Vacasa's return on equity.
Bowman Consulting Group received 9 more outperform votes than Vacasa when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.44% of users gave Bowman Consulting Group an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Vacasa an outperform vote.
Summary
Bowman Consulting Group beats Vacasa on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VCSA) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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