Gartner, Inc. vs V2X, Inc., two Consulting stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Gartner earns 9.7% on assets from subscription research; V2X earns 2.8% executing government logistics, and neither headline return on equity survives inspection, Gartner's four-digit figure resting on 47 turns of debt against buyback-erased equity, V2X's modest 8% at least dividing by something real. The operating gap is wide, a 20.9% margin against 3.5%. The market prices them upside down from the economics, 25.9 times earnings for the contractor and 13.3 for the franchise, paying for contracted revenue over renewable margins. Gartner's 14.5% free-cash yield against V2X's 6% is the widest disagreement between price and cash on this page. The multiple gap is a bet that seats churn and convoys do not.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | IT | VVX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $134.91 | $72.52 |
| Market cap | $9.4B | $2.3B |
| Sector | Consulting | Consulting |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +4.3% |
| P/E | 13.3 | 25.9 |
| P/B | 148.92 | 2.07 |
| P/S | 1.46 | 0.48 |
| EV/EBITDA | 8.5 | 16.2 |
| Revenue growth | +2.3% | +9.3% |
| Gross margin | 71.9% | — |
| Operating margin | 20.9% | 3.5% |
| Net margin | 11.4% | 1.9% |
| Return on equity | 1168.5% | 8.0% |
| Return on assets | 9.7% | 2.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 26.6% | 7.5% |
| FCF yield | 14.5% | 6.0% |
| Debt / equity | 47.06 | 0.97 |
| Current ratio | 0.94 | 1.25 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.96 | 2.43 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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