Financial Survey: EquipmentShare.com (EQPT) and Its Rivals

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EquipmentShare.com	1	5	6	0	2.42
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	1415	4866	6656	220	2.43

EquipmentShare.com currently has a consensus target price of $34.78, indicating a potential upside of 92.57%. As a group, “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies have a potential upside of 10.02%. Given EquipmentShare.com’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe EquipmentShare.com is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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	0.71%	-34.48%	3.15%

Earnings & 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	58.26
EquipmentShare.com Competitors	$6.49 billion	$365.60 million	21.25

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.

Summary

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

EquipmentShare.com Company Profile

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