TWKS vs. PRFT, COMP, DAVA, PRO, FORTY, CINT, PERI, RMBL, TBRG, and ISSC
Should you be buying Thoughtworks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Thoughtworks include Perficient (PRFT), Compass (COMP), Endava (DAVA), PROS (PRO), Formula Systems (1985) (FORTY), CI&T (CINT), Perion Network (PERI), RumbleOn (RMBL), TruBridge (TBRG), and Innovative Solutions and Support (ISSC). These companies are all part of the "custom computer programming services" industry.
Thoughtworks (NASDAQ:TWKS) and Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Perficient received 391 more outperform votes than Thoughtworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.25% of users gave Perficient an outperform vote while only 30.77% of users gave Thoughtworks an outperform vote.
Thoughtworks currently has a consensus price target of $4.94, suggesting a potential upside of 79.05%. Perficient has a consensus price target of $70.43, suggesting a potential downside of 5.02%. Given Thoughtworks' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Thoughtworks is more favorable than Perficient.
In the previous week, Perficient had 4 more articles in the media than Thoughtworks. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Perficient and 4 mentions for Thoughtworks. Perficient's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Thoughtworks' score of 0.20 indicating that Perficient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Perficient has a net margin of 9.40% compared to Thoughtworks' net margin of -8.56%. Perficient's return on equity of 19.50% beat Thoughtworks' return on equity.
Thoughtworks has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perficient has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
32.8% of Thoughtworks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Perficient shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Thoughtworks shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Perficient shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Perficient has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Thoughtworks. Thoughtworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perficient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perficient beats Thoughtworks on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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