SMRT vs. ECX, MDRX, ARBE, TDCX, XPER, GDOT, RDUS, BWMN, ICG, and ACTG
Should you be buying SmartRent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SmartRent include ECARX (ECX), Veradigm (MDRX), Arbe Robotics (ARBE), TDCX (TDCX), Xperi (XPER), Green Dot (GDOT), Radius Recycling (RDUS), Bowman Consulting Group (BWMN), Intchains Group (ICG), and Acacia Research (ACTG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) and SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
59.4% of SmartRent shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of ECARX shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of SmartRent shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SmartRent has a net margin of -13.08% compared to SmartRent's net margin of -20.03%. SmartRent's return on equity of 0.00% beat ECARX's return on equity.
ECARX currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 575.68%. SmartRent has a consensus target price of $3.99, indicating a potential upside of 51.14%. Given SmartRent's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than SmartRent.
SmartRent has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ECARX. SmartRent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ECARX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SmartRent received 13 more outperform votes than ECARX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave ECARX an outperform vote while only 51.85% of users gave SmartRent an outperform vote.
ECARX has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartRent has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SmartRent had 4 more articles in the media than ECARX. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SmartRent and 1 mentions for ECARX. ECARX's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat SmartRent's score of 0.00 indicating that SmartRent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SmartRent beats ECARX on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SMRT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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