Head to Head Comparison: DLH (DLHC) & The Competition

DLH (NASDAQ:DLHC) is one of 203 public companies in the “Professional Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare DLH to related companies based on the strength of its risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares DLH and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DLH	-8.51%	-10.42%	-4.04%
DLH Competitors	-0.13%	35.53%	4.39%

Risk and Volatility

DLH has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLH’s competitors have a beta of 0.97, indicating that their average stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for DLH and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DLH	1	1	1	0	2.00
DLH Competitors	1590	6465	9178	431	2.48

As a group, “Professional Services” companies have a potential upside of 27.24%. Given DLH’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DLH has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

67.2% of DLH shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.4% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of DLH shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of shares of all “Professional Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares DLH and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
DLH	$344.50 million	$1.36 million	-2.40
DLH Competitors	$3.39 billion	$228.38 million	33.42

DLH’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than DLH. DLH is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

DLH competitors beat DLH on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

DLH Company Profile

DLH Holdings Corp. provides technology-enabled business process outsourcing, program management solutions, and public health research and analytics services in the United States. It offers digital transformation and cyber security solutions, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud enablement, cybersecurity ecosystem, big data analytics, and modeling and simulation to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Health Agency, Tele-medicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, and US Navy Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC). The company also provides science research and development services and solutions, such as data analytics, testing and evaluation, clinical trials research services, and epidemiology studies to support multiple operating divisions, including NIH and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the Military Health System. In addition, it offers system engineering and integration solutions in the areas of pharmaceutical delivery logistics, fire protection engineering, biomedical equipment, and technology engineering on behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs, NIWC, Health and Human Services, and other federal customers. The company also provides business process management services under the trademarks, e-PRAT and SPOT-m, as well as the registered trademark, Infinibyte for cloud-based solutions. The company was formerly known as TeamStaff, Inc. and changed its name to DLH Holdings Corp. in June 2012. DLH Holdings Corp. was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.