Risk and Volatility
Professional Diversity Network has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Professional Diversity Network and Conduent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Professional Diversity Network | -38.08% | -77.53% | -36.97% |
| Conduent | 8.66% | -11.28% | -3.45% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
27.8% of Professional Diversity Network shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of Professional Diversity Network shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Conduent shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Professional Diversity Network | $6.73 million | 0.55 | -$2.51 million | ($1.74) | -1.03 |
| Conduent | $3.36 billion | 0.12 | $426.00 million | $1.37 | 1.83 |
Conduent has higher revenue and earnings than Professional Diversity Network. Professional Diversity Network is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Conduent beats Professional Diversity Network on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Professional Diversity Network
Professional Diversity Network, Inc. operates online professional networking communities with career resources in the United States. It operates through three segments: Professional Diversity Network (PDN Network), National Association of Professional Women (NAPW Network), and RemoteMore USA (RemoteMore). The company offers online professional job seeking communities that offers recruitment services, such as single and multiple job postings, recruitment media, talent recruitment communities, corporate memberships, hiring campaign marketing and advertising, e-newsletter marketing, and research and outreach services to various cultural groups and employers. It also provides consumer advertising and consumer marketing solutions through advertising and job postings on its websites; and contracted software development services. In addition, the company operates a women-only professional networking organization; and offers companies with talented engineers to provide solutions to their software needs. Professional Diversity Network, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
About Conduent
Conduent Incorporated provides digital business solutions and services for the commercial, government, and transportation spectrum in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Commercial, Government Services, and Transportation. The Commercial segment offers business process services and customized solutions to clients in various industries; and customer experience management, business operations, healthcare claims and administration, and human capital solutions. The Government segment provides government-centric business process services to the United States federal, state, local, and foreign governments for public assistance, program administration, transaction processing, and payment services; and digital payments, child support payments, government healthcare, and eligibility and enrollment solutions. The Transportation segment offers systems, support, and revenue-generating solutions to government transportation agency clients; and public safety, mobility, and digital payment solutions. This segment also provides electronic tolling, urban congestion management, and mileage-based user solutions; transit solutions; citation and permit administration, parking enforcement, and curbside demand management solutions; and computer-aided dispatch/automatic vehicle location solutions. Conduent Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey.
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