BL vs. DCT, NCNO, AYX, QTWO, SWI, NICE, DOCU, CDAY, MNDY, and TWLO
Should you be buying BlackLine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackLine include Duck Creek Technologies (DCT), nCino (NCNO), Alteryx (AYX), Q2 (QTWO), SolarWinds (SWI), NICE (NICE), DocuSign (DOCU), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), monday.com (MNDY), and Twilio (TWLO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) and Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ:DCT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
BlackLine received 362 more outperform votes than Duck Creek Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.24% of users gave BlackLine an outperform vote while only 51.61% of users gave Duck Creek Technologies an outperform vote.
BlackLine has higher revenue and earnings than Duck Creek Technologies. Duck Creek Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackLine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackLine has a net margin of 2.30% compared to Duck Creek Technologies' net margin of -4.57%. BlackLine's return on equity of 9.07% beat Duck Creek Technologies' return on equity.
95.1% of BlackLine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.6% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of BlackLine shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackLine has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duck Creek Technologies has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BlackLine had 13 more articles in the media than Duck Creek Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for BlackLine and 0 mentions for Duck Creek Technologies. BlackLine's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Duck Creek Technologies' score of 0.88 indicating that BlackLine is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackLine currently has a consensus price target of $64.56, suggesting a potential upside of 35.28%. Given BlackLine's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BlackLine is more favorable than Duck Creek Technologies.
Summary
BlackLine beats Duck Creek Technologies on 16 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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