CARS vs. PEGA, STNE, PAGS, CLVT, ATHM, FIVN, PLTK, RNG, GDRX, and DXC
Should you be buying Cars.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cars.com include Pegasystems (PEGA), StoneCo (STNE), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Clarivate (CLVT), Autohome (ATHM), Five9 (FIVN), Playtika (PLTK), RingCentral (RNG), GoodRx (GDRX), and DXC Technology (DXC). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) and Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Cars.com presently has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.64%. Pegasystems has a consensus target price of $72.33, indicating a potential upside of 25.88%. Given Pegasystems' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Pegasystems is more favorable than Cars.com.
Pegasystems received 236 more outperform votes than Cars.com when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.90% of users gave Cars.com an outperform vote while only 59.59% of users gave Pegasystems an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 36 more articles in the media than Pegasystems. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for Cars.com and 7 mentions for Pegasystems. Pegasystems' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Cars.com's score of 0.05 indicating that Pegasystems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cars.com has a beta of 2.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pegasystems has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cars.com has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Pegasystems' net margin of 5.32%. Pegasystems' return on equity of 45.00% beat Cars.com's return on equity.
89.2% of Cars.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Pegasystems shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Cars.com shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 50.1% of Pegasystems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cars.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pegasystems. Cars.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pegasystems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cars.com and Pegasystems tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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