NTNX vs. APPF, NATI, DSGX, HPE, FROG, PLTR, SNOW, ADSK, TEAM, and SQ
Should you be buying Nutanix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutanix include AppFolio (APPF), National Instruments (NATI), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), JFrog (FROG), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), and Block (SQ).
AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) and Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
AppFolio currently has a consensus price target of $241.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.55%. Nutanix has a consensus price target of $72.77, indicating a potential upside of 31.55%. Given AppFolio's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nutanix is more favorable than AppFolio.
62.3% of AppFolio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Nutanix shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of AppFolio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nutanix shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Nutanix had 36 more articles in the media than AppFolio. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Nutanix and 5 mentions for AppFolio. Nutanix's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat AppFolio's score of 0.36 indicating that AppFolio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nutanix received 389 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.65% of users gave Nutanix an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutanix has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AppFolio has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nutanix. Nutanix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppFolio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AppFolio has a net margin of 11.38% compared to AppFolio's net margin of -0.57%. Nutanix's return on equity of 13.51% beat AppFolio's return on equity.
Summary
AppFolio beats Nutanix on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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