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

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

Profitability

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

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.2% of Mitie Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of Acacia Research shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Mitie Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Acacia Research shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Mitie Group and Acacia Research, as reported by MarketBeat.

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

Acacia Research has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.66%. Given Acacia Research’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Acacia Research is more favorable than Mitie Group.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mitie Group	$7.53 billion	0.38	$121.04 million	N/A	N/A
Acacia Research	$285.23 million	1.59	$21.68 million	($0.18)	-26.11

Mitie Group has higher revenue and earnings than Acacia Research.

Summary

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

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.

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.