Critical Contrast: EquipmentShare.com (EQPT) & Its Competitors

EquipmentShare.com (NASDAQ:EQPT) is one of 158 public companies in the “Trading Companies & Distributors” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare EquipmentShare.com to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

50.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by institutional investors. 32.8% of EquipmentShare.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares EquipmentShare.com and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
EquipmentShare.com	$4.38 billion	$40.00 million	57.13
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	$6.49 billion	$365.60 million	20.97

EquipmentShare.com’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than EquipmentShare.com. EquipmentShare.com is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for EquipmentShare.com and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EquipmentShare.com	1	5	6	0	2.42
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	1420	4866	6658	220	2.43

EquipmentShare.com presently has a consensus target price of $34.78, indicating a potential upside of 96.37%. As a group, “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies have a potential upside of 11.16%. Given EquipmentShare.com’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe EquipmentShare.com is more favorable than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares EquipmentShare.com and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
EquipmentShare.com	N/A	N/A	N/A
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	0.71%	-34.50%	3.15%

Summary

EquipmentShare.com rivals beat EquipmentShare.com on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About EquipmentShare.com

EquipmentShare.com Inc. provides integrated, full-service construction solutions across equipment rental, sales and technology. EquipmentShare.com Inc. is based in Columbia, Missouri.