COMTEX News Network (OTCMKTS:CMTX – Get Rating) and Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE:DFIN – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.
Volatility & Risk
COMTEX News Network has a beta of -8.34, suggesting that its share price is 934% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donnelley Financial Solutions has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares COMTEX News Network and Donnelley Financial Solutions’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| COMTEX News Network | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Donnelley Financial Solutions | $833.60 million | 1.63 | $102.50 million | $2.92 | 15.85 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations for COMTEX News Network and Donnelley Financial Solutions, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| COMTEX News Network | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Donnelley Financial Solutions | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.50 |
Donnelley Financial Solutions has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.01%. Given Donnelley Financial Solutions’ higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Donnelley Financial Solutions is more favorable than COMTEX News Network.
Profitability
This table compares COMTEX News Network and Donnelley Financial Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| COMTEX News Network | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Donnelley Financial Solutions | 11.19% | 27.53% | 10.58% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
90.8% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of COMTEX News Network shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Donnelley Financial Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Donnelley Financial Solutions beats COMTEX News Network on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About COMTEX News Network
Comtex News Network, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic real-time news and content. Its product portfolio includes CustomWires, Top News Summaries, Top Financial Summaries, Comtex Front Page, Custom Feeds, Application Programming Interface (API), Full Feeds, and Video Content. The company was founded in 1980 is headquartered in New York, NY.
About Donnelley Financial Solutions
Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of compliance and technology solutions. It operates through the following segments: Capital Markets-Software Solutions, Capital Markets-Compliance and Communications Management, Investment Companies-Software Solutions, and Investment Companies-Compliance and Communications Management. The Capital Markets-Software Solutions segment provides software solutions to public and private companies to help manage public and private transaction processes. The Capital Markets-Compliance and Communications Management segment offers tech-enabled services and print and distribution solutions to public and private companies. The Investment Companies-Software Solutions segment includes software solutions that enable clients to store and manage compliance and regulatory information in a self-service, central repository for documents to be easily accessed, assembled, edited, translated, rendered, and submitted to regulators. The Investment Companies-Compliance and Communications Management segment provides its clients tech-enabled services to prepare and file registration forms. The company was founded on February 22, 2016 and is headquart
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