Financial Review: EquipmentShare.com (EQPT) vs. Its Rivals

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares EquipmentShare.com and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
EquipmentShare.com	$4.38 billion	$40.00 million	164.85
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	$6.48 billion	$363.90 million	25.33

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for EquipmentShare.com and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EquipmentShare.com	1	5	6	0	2.42
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	1409	4855	6646	217	2.43

EquipmentShare.com currently has a consensus target price of $36.67, indicating a potential upside of 71.10%. As a group, “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies have a potential upside of 5.78%. Given EquipmentShare.com’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe EquipmentShare.com is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares EquipmentShare.com and its peers’ 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	0.68%	-34.57%	3.12%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are held by institutional investors. 32.8% of EquipmentShare.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

EquipmentShare.com peers 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.