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VVI vs. MGRC, KAR, HCSG, PFMT, CTAS, CPRT, IRM, UNF, PAY, and ALIT

Should you be buying Viad stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Viad include McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), OPENLANE (KAR), Healthcare Services Group (HCSG), Performant Financial (PFMT), Cintas (CTAS), Copart (CPRT), Iron Mountain (IRM), UniFirst (UNF), Paymentus (PAY), and Alight (ALIT).

Viad vs.

Viad (NYSE:VVI) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.

Viad received 49 more outperform votes than McGrath RentCorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.16% of users gave Viad an outperform vote while only 58.18% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ViadOutperform Votes
305
69.16%
Underperform Votes
136
30.84%
McGrath RentCorpOutperform Votes
256
58.18%
Underperform Votes
184
41.82%

Viad has a beta of 2.07, meaning that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Viad currently has a consensus target price of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. McGrath RentCorp has a consensus target price of $145.50, suggesting a potential upside of 23.01%. Given McGrath RentCorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe McGrath RentCorp is more favorable than Viad.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Viad
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
McGrath RentCorp
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

89.9% of Viad shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Viad shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, McGrath RentCorp had 11 more articles in the media than Viad. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for McGrath RentCorp and 0 mentions for Viad. McGrath RentCorp's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Viad's score of 0.00 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Viad Neutral
McGrath RentCorp Neutral

McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Viad. Viad is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Viad$1.24B0.00$16.02M$0.50N/A
McGrath RentCorp$831.84M3.49$174.62M$9.1512.93

McGrath RentCorp has a net margin of 25.29% compared to Viad's net margin of 2.68%. Viad's return on equity of 47.55% beat McGrath RentCorp's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Viad2.68% 47.55% 5.49%
McGrath RentCorp 25.29%13.64%5.89%

Summary

McGrath RentCorp beats Viad on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VVI vs. The Competition

MetricViadBusiness services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$954.09M$20.40B$7.30B$19.63B
Dividend YieldN/A2.67%2.32%3.71%
P/E Ratio42.4521.8822.9736.76
Price / SalesN/A8.69124.3016.83
Price / Cash13.6433.3829.1419.84
Price / BookN/A5.806.195.73
Net Income$16.02M$526.53M$134.21M$993.95M

Viad Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VVI
Viad
2.946 of 5 stars
N/A$48.00
+∞
N/A$954.09M$1.24B42.453,390
MGRC
McGrath RentCorp
4.8903 of 5 stars
$114.21
+2.5%
$145.50
+27.4%
+8.4%$2.80B$888.78M12.481,220Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
KAR
OPENLANE
3.4027 of 5 stars
$19.83
+0.4%
$22.00
+10.9%
+45.0%$2.12B$1.69B76.273,960
HCSG
Healthcare Services Group
2.2701 of 5 stars
$11.58
+1.0%
$13.80
+19.2%
+22.4%$848.71M$1.70B16.7835,700Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↑
PFMT
Performant Financial
2.1465 of 5 stars
N/A$7.00
+∞
N/A$278.72M$120.78M-35.60930
CTAS
Cintas
4.8386 of 5 stars
$190.73
+0.8%
$198.46
+4.1%
+34.7%$76.97B$9.94B48.1643,000Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
Positive News
CPRT
Copart
3.622 of 5 stars
$55.67
+0.1%
$58.00
+4.2%
+19.2%$53.64B$4.36B39.2011,700Short Interest ↓
Positive News
IRM
Iron Mountain
4.596 of 5 stars
$102.23
+1.1%
$131.00
+28.1%
+67.1%$30.00B$5.99B283.9826,000Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
UNF
UniFirst
3.7384 of 5 stars
$226.52
+2.6%
$197.50
-12.8%
+34.7%$4.21B$2.43B29.1516,000Dividend Announcement
PAY
Paymentus
2.8256 of 5 stars
$30.12
-0.4%
$28.80
-4.4%
+81.2%$3.75B$778.67M97.161,273Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
ALIT
Alight
3.3365 of 5 stars
$6.64
+1.5%
$10.61
+59.8%
-17.1%$3.61B$3.36B-13.8316,000

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This page (NYSE:VVI) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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