Contrasting Comtex News Network (OTCMKTS:CMTX) & Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB)

Comtex News Network (OTCMKTS:CMTX) and Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

Comtex News Network has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dun & Bradstreet has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Comtex News Network and Dun & Bradstreet’s 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
Dun & Bradstreet	-1.60%	11.06%	4.17%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Comtex News Network and Dun & Bradstreet, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Comtex News Network	0	0	0	0	0.00
Dun & Bradstreet	0	5	0	0	2.00

Dun & Bradstreet has a consensus target price of $11.54, suggesting a potential upside of 26.02%. Given Dun & Bradstreet’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dun & Bradstreet is more favorable than Comtex News Network.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.7% of Dun & Bradstreet shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of Comtex News Network shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Dun & Bradstreet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Comtex News Network and Dun & Bradstreet”s top-line 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
Dun & Bradstreet	$2.38 billion	1.72	-$28.60 million	($0.09)	-101.72

Comtex News Network has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dun & Bradstreet.

Summary

Dun & Bradstreet beats Comtex News Network on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Comtex News Network

Comtex News Network, Inc. provides electronic real-time news, and content and proprietary market products in the United States. The company receives, enhances, combines, and filters news and content received from national and international news bureaus, agencies, and publications. Its products comprise CustomWires, the real-time and subject-specific newswires, such as finance, business, foreign exchange, and public companies, as well as real-time trading data in the global stock markets, commodities and futures prices, SEC filing information, personal investment news, economic indicator data, international trade policies, business news, IRS bulletins, and actions from the global financial institutions; and Comtex Top News that include editorial news summaries in 29 categories. The company also provides feed products and custom solutions; and SmarTrend products for managing investments. Comtex News Network, Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is based in New York, New York.

About Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. engages in providing business decisioning data and analytics solutions. The firm is involved in providing information with its solutions to support its clients with critical business operations. It offers end-to-end solutions to clients in the small business, finance, sales & marketing, third party risk & compliance, and public sectors. The company was founded on August 8, 2018, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.