SSTI vs. EGAN, CMCM, RDVT, WIMI, BNFT, AILE, WKME, KC, GDYN, and BIGC
Should you be buying SoundThinking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundThinking include eGain (EGAN), Cheetah Mobile (CMCM), Red Violet (RDVT), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), Benefitfocus (BNFT), iLearningEngines (AILE), WalkMe (WKME), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Grid Dynamics (GDYN), and BigCommerce (BIGC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) and eGain (NASDAQ:EGAN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and dividends.
eGain has higher revenue and earnings than SoundThinking. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than eGain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
60.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of eGain shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.3% of eGain shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SoundThinking currently has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.01%. eGain has a consensus target price of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.97%. Given eGain's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe eGain is more favorable than SoundThinking.
SoundThinking has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eGain has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SoundThinking had 3 more articles in the media than eGain. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SoundThinking and 5 mentions for eGain. eGain's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat SoundThinking's score of 0.74 indicating that eGain is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
eGain received 19 more outperform votes than SoundThinking when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave eGain an outperform vote while only 68.46% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.
eGain has a net margin of 9.34% compared to SoundThinking's net margin of -3.94%. eGain's return on equity of 13.83% beat SoundThinking's return on equity.
Summary
eGain beats SoundThinking on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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