BOX vs. MANH, DT, NICE, MNDY, DOCU, CDAY, PATH, ESTC, CYBR, and TWLO
Should you be buying BOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOX include Manhattan Associates (MANH), Dynatrace (DT), NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), CyberArk Software (CYBR), and Twilio (TWLO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BOX (NYSE:BOX) and Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ:MANH) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
BOX presently has a consensus target price of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 11.31%. Manhattan Associates has a consensus target price of $240.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.55%. Given BOX's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than Manhattan Associates.
BOX received 288 more outperform votes than Manhattan Associates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.71% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 62.95% of users gave Manhattan Associates an outperform vote.
BOX has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manhattan Associates has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Manhattan Associates has a net margin of 19.91% compared to BOX's net margin of 13.13%. Manhattan Associates' return on equity of 85.28% beat BOX's return on equity.
In the previous week, BOX had 14 more articles in the media than Manhattan Associates. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for BOX and 14 mentions for Manhattan Associates. Manhattan Associates' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat BOX's score of 0.43 indicating that Manhattan Associates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.7% of BOX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Manhattan Associates shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of BOX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Manhattan Associates shares are owned by 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.
Manhattan Associates has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BOX. BOX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manhattan Associates, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Manhattan Associates beats BOX on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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