Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) and Mitie Group (OTCMKTS:MITFY) Critical Survey

Acacia Research (NASDAQ:ACTG) and Mitie Group (OTCMKTS:MITFY) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Acacia Research and Mitie Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Acacia Research	$285.23 million	1.58	$21.68 million	($0.18)	-25.89
Mitie Group	$7.53 billion	0.38	$121.04 million	N/A	N/A

Mitie Group has higher revenue and earnings than Acacia Research.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Acacia Research and Mitie Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Acacia Research	1	0	1	0	2.00
Mitie Group	0	0	0	1	4.00

Acacia Research currently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.76%. Given Acacia Research’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Acacia Research is more favorable than Mitie Group.

Volatility and Risk

Acacia Research has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitie Group has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.7% of Acacia Research shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Mitie Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Acacia Research shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Mitie Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Acacia Research and Mitie Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Acacia Research	-8.53%	-2.81%	-2.11%
Mitie Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Mitie Group beats Acacia Research on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Acacia Research

Acacia is a publicly traded (Nasdaq: ACTG) company that is focused on acquiring and operating businesses across the industrial, energy and technology sectors where it believes it can leverage its expertise, significant capital base, and deep industry relationships to drive value. Acacia evaluates opportunities based on the attractiveness of the underlying cash flows, without regard to a specific investment horizon. Acacia operates its businesses based on three key principles of people, process, and performance and has built a management team with demonstrated expertise in research, transactions and execution, and operations and management.

About Mitie Group

Mitie Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides facilities management and professional services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Business Services, Technical Services, Central Government & Defense (CG&D), Communities. The company provides decarbonization, electrical grid connections, emission intelligence, energy and carbon, EV fleets, and heat solutions, as well as solar energy; cleaning and hygiene, engineering maintenance, integrated facilities management, landscape, and waste management services; project and workplace services; and Fire & security systems, front of house, intelligence, vetting, and security guarding service. It serves to financial, professional, life science, manufacturing, media, telecom and tech, retail, shopping centres, transport, utilities, central and local government, critical environment, defence, education, healthcare, and justice and immigration sectors. The company was incorporated in 1936 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.