Financial Contrast: Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) versus The Amacore Group (OTCMKTS:ACGI)

The Amacore Group (OTCMKTS:ACGI) and Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for The Amacore Group and Priority Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
The Amacore Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
Priority Technology	0	1	1	0	2.50

Priority Technology has a consensus target price of $9.00, indicating a potential upside of 52.54%.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares The Amacore Group and Priority Technology”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
The Amacore Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Priority Technology	$813.88 million	0.58	-$1.31 million	($0.58)	-10.17

The Amacore Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Priority Technology.

Volatility & Risk

The Amacore Group has a beta of 3.35, meaning that its stock price is 235% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Priority Technology has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares The Amacore Group and Priority Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
The Amacore Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Priority Technology	0.74%	-9.60%	0.90%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

11.5% of Priority Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Priority Technology beats The Amacore Group on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About The Amacore Group

The Amacore Group, Inc. provides and markets healthcare-related membership products for individuals and families. Its products include limited and major medical insurance programs, supplemental medical insurance, and discount dental and vision programs. The company also provides and markets lifestyle membership programs, including insurance discounts, discount benefit savings, ID theft, legal counsel, credit management, automotive warranties, employment protection, and a host of others. The company serves insurance carriers, financial institutions, affiliate marketers, direct marketers, insurance agents, and fortune 500 companies. It distributes its products and services through various distribution methods, such as its agent network, inbound call center, in-house sales representatives, network marketing, and affinity marketing partners, as well as through third-party direct response marketers. The Amacore Group, Inc. was formerly known as Eye Care International Inc. and changed its name to The Amacore Group, Inc. in April 2005. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Maitland, Florida.

About Priority Technology

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB) Payments, Business-To-Business (B2B) Payments, and Enterprise Payments. It offers SMB payments processing solutions for B2C transactions through independent sales organizations, financial institutions, independent software vendors, and other referral partners through its MX product suite, which includes MX Connect and MX Merchant products, such as MX Insights, MX Storefront, MX Retail, MX Invoice, MX B2B and ACH.com, and others, which provides flexible and customizable set of business applications that helps to manage critical business work functions and revenue performance to resellers and merchant clients using core payment processing. The company also offers CPX, a platform that offers accounts payable automation solutions, including virtual card, purchase card, ACH +, dynamic discounting, or check. In addition, it provides curated managed services; payment-adjacent technologies to facilitate the acceptance of electronic payments from customers; and Plastiq payables management software, which helps businesses in improving cash flow with instant access to working capital. Further, the company offers embedded finance and BaaS solutions to enterprise customers to modernize legacy platforms and accelerate software partners' strategies to monetize payments; and managed services solutions that provide audience-specific programs for institutional partners and other third parties; and consulting and development solutions. It serves SMB, and enterprises, as well as distribution partners, including retail and wholesale independent sales organizations, financial institutions, and independent software vendors. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.