VERI vs. BWMN, GRVY, NRC, SOHU, OOMA, IBEX, PMTS, EGHT, ABSI, and SHAP
Should you be buying Veritone stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veritone include Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Gravity (GRVY), National Research (NRC), Sohu.com (SOHU), Ooma (OOMA), IBEX (IBEX), CPI Card Group (PMTS), 8X8 (EGHT), Absci (ABSI), and Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Veritone vs.
Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) and Veritone (NASDAQ:VERI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Bowman Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Veritone. Bowman Consulting Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veritone, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bowman Consulting Group has a net margin of -2.62% compared to Veritone's net margin of -47.97%. Bowman Consulting Group's return on equity of 3.76% beat Veritone's return on equity.
Bowman Consulting Group presently has a consensus price target of $39.70, indicating a potential upside of 52.87%. Veritone has a consensus price target of $2.88, indicating a potential upside of 6.09%. Given Bowman Consulting Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Veritone.
63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of Veritone shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.6% of Veritone shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veritone has a beta of 3.17, indicating that its share price is 217% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Veritone received 277 more outperform votes than Bowman Consulting Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.44% of users gave Bowman Consulting Group an outperform vote while only 61.08% of users gave Veritone an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Bowman Consulting Group had 2 more articles in the media than Veritone. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bowman Consulting Group and 1 mentions for Veritone. Bowman Consulting Group's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Veritone's score of 0.81 indicating that Bowman Consulting Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bowman Consulting Group beats Veritone on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VERI) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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