PRCH vs. GDYN, KC, DH, BIGC, WEAV, BAND, CGNT, MGIC, SCWX, and DDD
Should you be buying Porch Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Porch Group include Grid Dynamics (GDYN), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Definitive Healthcare (DH), BigCommerce (BIGC), Weave Communications (WEAV), Bandwidth (BAND), Cognyte Software (CGNT), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), SecureWorks (SCWX), and 3D Systems (DDD). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Porch Group (NASDAQ:PRCH) and Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ:GDYN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
48.5% of Porch Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of Grid Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Porch Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Grid Dynamics 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.
Porch Group currently has a consensus price target of $7.19, suggesting a potential upside of 242.26%. Grid Dynamics has a consensus price target of $15.20, suggesting a potential upside of 60.00%. Given Porch Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Porch Group is more favorable than Grid Dynamics.
Grid Dynamics received 23 more outperform votes than Porch Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave Grid Dynamics an outperform vote while only 64.91% of users gave Porch Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Porch Group and Porch Group both had 2 articles in the media. Porch Group's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Grid Dynamics' score of 0.77 indicating that Porch Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Grid Dynamics has a net margin of 0.72% compared to Porch Group's net margin of -23.68%. Grid Dynamics' return on equity of 3.31% beat Porch Group's return on equity.
Porch Group has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Grid Dynamics has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Grid Dynamics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Porch Group. Porch Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grid Dynamics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Grid Dynamics beats Porch Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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