BLKB vs. BOX, CSOD, SINA, MIME, PD, FDS, SSNC, MANH, AZPN, and GWRE
Should you be buying Blackbaud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackbaud include BOX (BOX), Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), SINA (SINA), Mimecast (MIME), PagerDuty (PD), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Aspen Technology (AZPN), and Guidewire Software (GWRE).
Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) and BOX (NYSE:BOX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
Blackbaud currently has a consensus price target of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.91%. BOX has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 11.31%. Given Blackbaud's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Blackbaud is more favorable than BOX.
Blackbaud has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BOX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Blackbaud. BOX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackbaud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BOX received 409 more outperform votes than Blackbaud when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.71% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 61.04% of users gave Blackbaud an outperform vote.
94.2% of Blackbaud shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Blackbaud shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of BOX shares are held by 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, BOX had 17 more articles in the media than Blackbaud. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for BOX and 11 mentions for Blackbaud. BOX's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Blackbaud's score of 0.40 indicating that BOX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blackbaud pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. BOX pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Blackbaud pays out 117.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BOX pays out 164.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
BOX has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Blackbaud's net margin of 1.94%. Blackbaud's return on equity of 16.66% beat BOX's return on equity.
Summary
BOX beats Blackbaud on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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