Head-To-Head Comparison: Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR) and Yext (NYSE:YEXT)

Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR) and Yext (NYSE:YEXT) 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, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mirion Technologies and Yext”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mirion Technologies	$860.80 million	6.20	-$36.10 million	$0.03	759.83
Yext	$449.66 million	2.30	-$27.95 million	($0.12)	-70.04

Yext has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mirion Technologies. Yext is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mirion Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Mirion Technologies has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yext has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Mirion Technologies and Yext, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mirion Technologies	0	1	6	2	3.11
Yext	1	2	3	0	2.33

Mirion Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $25.67, suggesting a potential upside of 12.60%. Yext has a consensus price target of $9.44, suggesting a potential upside of 12.28%. Given Mirion Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mirion Technologies is more favorable than Yext.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

78.5% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.0% of Yext shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Mirion Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Yext shares are held by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares Mirion Technologies and Yext’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mirion Technologies	1.12%	6.57%	3.83%
Yext	1.66%	4.90%	1.27%

Summary

Mirion Technologies beats Yext on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mirion Technologies

Mirion Technologies, Inc. provides radiation detection, measurement, analysis, and monitoring products and services in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, China, Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, South Korea, and Japan. It operates through two segments, Medical and Technologies. The Medical segment offers radiation oncology quality assurance and dosimetry solutions; patient safety solutions for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy centers; radiation therapy quality assurance solutions for calibrating and verifying imaging and treatment accuracy; and radionuclide therapy products for nuclear medicine applications, such as shielding, product handling, medical imaging furniture, and rehabilitation products. This segment supports applications in medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, practitioner safety, and rehabilitation. The Technologies segment focuses on addressing critical radiation safety, measurement, and analysis applications; and provides personal radiation detection, identification equipment, and analysis tools. The company's products and solutions also include nuclear medicines, dosimeters, contamination and clearance monitors, reactor instrumentation and control equipment and systems, medical and industrial imaging systems and related accessories, alpha spectroscopy instruments, alpha/beta counting instruments, and gamma spectroscopy detector systems; and electrical penetration, cancer diagnostics, software, and other services. It serves hospitals, clinics and urgent care facilities, dental and veterinary offices, radiation treatment facilities, OEMs for radiation therapy, laboratories, military organizations, government agencies, industrial companies, power and utility companies, reactor design firms, and NPPs. The company was formerly known as Global Monitoring Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mirion Technologies, Inc. in January 2006. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Yext

Yext, Inc. organizes business facts to provide answers to consumer questions in North America and internationally. It operates Yext platform, a cloud-based platform that allows its customers to offer answers to consumer questions, to control the facts about their businesses and the content of their landing pages, and to manage their consumer reviews; and provides customers to update their information and content through its publisher network of maps, apps, search engines, intelligent GPS systems, digital assistants, vertical directories, and social networks, as well as professional services. The company’s platform also enables its customers to centralize, control and manage data fields, including store information comprising name, address, phone number, and holiday hours; professional information, such as headshot, specialties, and education; job information consists of title and description; FAQs and other information. It serves various industries, such as healthcare, hospitality, food services, retail, and financial services. Yext, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.