LSPD vs. PAYC, INFA, CFLT, APPF, PCTY, DUOL, CDAY, DAY, DSGX, and GTLB
Should you be buying Lightspeed Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightspeed Commerce include Paycom Software (PAYC), Informatica (INFA), Confluent (CFLT), AppFolio (APPF), Paylocity (PCTY), Duolingo (DUOL), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) and Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its stock price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paycom Software has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Paycom Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.5% of Paycom Software shares are owned 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.
Paycom Software has higher revenue and earnings than Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paycom Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paycom Software had 10 more articles in the media than Lightspeed Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Paycom Software and 7 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Paycom Software's score of 0.66 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $18.78, indicating a potential upside of 29.15%. Paycom Software has a consensus price target of $246.31, indicating a potential upside of 69.50%. Given Paycom Software's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paycom Software is more favorable than Lightspeed Commerce.
Paycom Software has a net margin of 26.91% compared to Lightspeed Commerce's net margin of -18.03%. Paycom Software's return on equity of 32.84% beat Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity.
Paycom Software received 597 more outperform votes than Lightspeed Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.12% of users gave Paycom Software an outperform vote while only 55.90% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote.
Summary
Paycom Software beats Lightspeed Commerce on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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