By otakuyassine3@gmail.com 
Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS – Get Free Report) and Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW – Get Free Report) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation and earnings.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Research Solutions and Flywire, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Research Solutions | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Flywire | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2.80 |
Research Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 32.85%. Flywire has a consensus price target of $25.29, indicating a potential upside of 24.87%. Given Research Solutions’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Research Solutions is more favorable than Flywire.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
33.6% of Research Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of Flywire shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Research Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of Flywire shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Research Solutions and Flywire’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Research Solutions | -4.57% | 8.43% | 2.71% |
| Flywire | 4.23% | 2.49% | 1.86% |
Risk & Volatility
Research Solutions has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flywire has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Research Solutions and Flywire”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Research Solutions | $46.61 million | 2.89 | -$3.79 million | ($0.08) | -51.75 |
| Flywire | $475.14 million | 5.30 | -$8.57 million | $0.15 | 135.00 |
Research Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Flywire. Research Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flywire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Flywire beats Research Solutions on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Research Solutions
Research Solutions, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides research cloud-based software-as-a-service software platform and related services to corporate, academic, government and individual researchers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It provides Discover platform that facilitates search discovery across virtually all scientific, technical, and medical (STM) articles available, including free basic search solutions and advanced search tools, which include the Resolute.ai and scite.ai products, a tools that allows for searching and identifying relevant research and find insights in other datasets adjacent to STM content, such as clinical trial, patent, life science and medtech regulatory information, competitor and technology landscape insights in addition to searching the customer’s internal datasets. The company also offers Article Galaxy, a solution that allows research organizations to load their entitlements, consisting of subscriptions, discount or token packages, and their existing library of articles. In addition, it provides Manage platform, a references solution that allows users to access the article inside the platform including setting up personal folders or team folders and allows researchers to markup and take notes on the articles in a supported browser on a desktop or tablet. Further, the company’s platform facilitates the sale of published STM content sold as individual articles. The company was formerly known as Derycz Scientific, Inc. and changed its name to Research Solutions, Inc. in March 2013. Research Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Henderson, Nevada.
About Flywire
Flywire Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payments enablement and software company in the United States and internationally. Its payment platform and network, and vertical-specific software help clients to get paid and help their customers to pay. The company’s platform facilitates payment flows across multiple currencies, payment types, and payment options, as well as provides direct connections to alternative payment methods, such as Alipay, Boleto, PayPal/Venmo, and Trustly. It serves education, healthcare, travel, and business to business organizations. The company was formerly known as peerTransfer Corporation and changed its name to Flywire Corporation in December 2016. Flywire Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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