MEG vs. PLTK, PINC, FIVN, UPWK, GDRX, ASTH, RAMP, CRTO, VVX, and GB
Should you be buying Montrose Environmental Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montrose Environmental Group include Playtika (PLTK), Premier (PINC), Five9 (FIVN), Upwork (UPWK), GoodRx (GDRX), Astrana Health (ASTH), LiveRamp (RAMP), Criteo (CRTO), V2X (VVX), and Global Blue Group (GB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Montrose Environmental Group vs.
Playtika (NASDAQ:PLTK) and Montrose Environmental Group (NYSE:MEG) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Playtika has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montrose Environmental Group has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
11.9% of Playtika shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.9% of Montrose Environmental Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Playtika shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Montrose Environmental Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Playtika presently has a consensus price target of $7.78, indicating a potential upside of 57.83%. Montrose Environmental Group has a consensus price target of $31.40, indicating a potential upside of 115.88%. Given Montrose Environmental Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Montrose Environmental Group is more favorable than Playtika.
Montrose Environmental Group received 169 more outperform votes than Playtika when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.32% of users gave Montrose Environmental Group an outperform vote while only 45.95% of users gave Playtika an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Playtika had 5 more articles in the media than Montrose Environmental Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Playtika and 7 mentions for Montrose Environmental Group. Playtika's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Montrose Environmental Group's score of 0.70 indicating that Playtika is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Playtika has a net margin of 8.52% compared to Montrose Environmental Group's net margin of -5.28%. Montrose Environmental Group's return on equity of 1.86% beat Playtika's return on equity.
Playtika has higher revenue and earnings than Montrose Environmental Group. Montrose Environmental Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Playtika, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Playtika beats Montrose Environmental Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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