Head-To-Head Survey: Rightscorp (OTCMKTS:RIHT) & Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN)

Rightscorp (OTCMKTS:RIHT) and Bowman Consulting Group (NASDAQ:BWMN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Rightscorp and Bowman Consulting Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rightscorp	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bowman Consulting Group	2.20%	5.62%	2.67%

Risk and Volatility

Rightscorp has a beta of -0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 175% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bowman Consulting Group has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Rightscorp and Bowman Consulting Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rightscorp	0	0	0	0	0.00
Bowman Consulting Group	0	0	3	1	3.25

Bowman Consulting Group has a consensus price target of $38.17, indicating a potential downside of 8.84%. Given Bowman Consulting Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bowman Consulting Group is more favorable than Rightscorp.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.1% of Rightscorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.2% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Bowman Consulting Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Rightscorp and Bowman Consulting Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rightscorp	$290,000.00	10.05	-$410,000.00	N/A	N/A
Bowman Consulting Group	$426.56 million	1.69	$3.03 million	$0.60	69.78

Bowman Consulting Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rightscorp.

Summary

Bowman Consulting Group beats Rightscorp on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Rightscorp

Rightscorp, Inc. operates as a technology company that has a patent-pending proprietary method for collecting payments from illegal downloaders of copyrighted content through notifications sent to their Internet service providers (ISP’s). The company’s technology system monitors peer-to-peer file sharing networks and sends through email to ISP’s notifications of copyright infringement by the ISPs’ customers with date, time, copyright title, and other specific technology identifiers worldwide. It primarily serves copyright holders. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

About Bowman Consulting Group

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. provides a range of real estate, energy, infrastructure, and environmental management solutions in the United States. It offers civil and site engineering services, such as conceptual land planning, environmental consulting and permitting, planning/zoning and entitlements, roadway and highway designs, erosion and sediment designs, stormwater management designs, construction administration, traffic studies, floodplain studies, and utility relocation designs; and commissioning and energy efficiency services comprise construction observation, direct systems functional performance testing, system development readiness checklist, post occupancy review, review of construction documents, deferred/seasonal functional testing, final commissioning report, and commissioning review of submittals. The company also provides construction management services, including constructability review, value engineering, budgeting and cost estimating, interagency and utility coordination, onsite observation and report evaluation, public communication and outreach, and resident engineer services, as well as bid solicitation, documentation, and preparation services; and environmental consulting services consisting of wetlands and waters of the U.S. delineations, natural resources inventories, wildlife and vegetation surveys, threatened and endangered species surveys, endangered species conservation and management, wetland creation and enhancement design, NEPA documentation, section 404/401 permitting and compliance, NPDES permitting, and phase I environmental site assessment. In addition, it offers landscape architecture, land procurement and right-of-way acquisition, structural engineering, surveying and geospatial engineering, and transportation and water resources engineering services, as well as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.