Li-Cycle (LICY) Competitors

DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) and Li-Cycle (NYSE:LICY) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of DLHC or LICY?

67.3% of DLH shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.1% of Li-Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of DLH shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Li-Cycle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, DLHC or LICY?

DLH has higher revenue and earnings than Li-Cycle. Li-Cycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLH, 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
DLH	$388.87M	0.18	$7.40M	$0.44	11.25
Li-Cycle	$27.40M	0.71	-$138M	-$1.25	-0.67

Which has more risk & volatility, DLHC or LICY?

DLH has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Li-Cycle has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DLHC or LICY?

DLH received 270 more outperform votes than Li-Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.02% of users gave DLH an outperform vote while only 35.09% of users gave Li-Cycle an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DLH	Outperform Votes 290 65.02%	Underperform Votes 156 34.98%
Li-Cycle	Outperform Votes 20 35.09%	Underperform Votes 37 64.91%

Is DLHC or LICY more profitable?

DLH has a net margin of 1.64% compared to Li-Cycle's net margin of -77.74%. DLH's return on equity of 5.82% beat Li-Cycle's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DLH	1.64%	5.82%	1.97%
Li-Cycle	-77.74%	-41.90%	-13.43%

Do analysts prefer DLHC or LICY?

Li-Cycle has a consensus target price of $4.13, indicating a potential upside of 389.32%. Given Li-Cycle's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Li-Cycle is more favorable than DLH.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DLH	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Li-Cycle	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media prefer DLHC or LICY?

In the previous week, Li-Cycle had 3 more articles in the media than DLH. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Li-Cycle and 4 mentions for DLH. DLH's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Li-Cycle's score of 0.09 indicating that DLH is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DLH	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Li-Cycle	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

DLH beats Li-Cycle on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.