SKLZ vs. GRVY, APLD, SOHU, INOD, EGHT, PCYG, IBEX, TCX, QBTS, and OOMA
Should you be buying Skillz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skillz include Gravity (GRVY), Applied Digital (APLD), Sohu.com (SOHU), Innodata (INOD), 8X8 (EGHT), Park City Group (PCYG), IBEX (IBEX), Tucows (TCX), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), and Ooma (OOMA). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) and Gravity (NASDAQ:GRVY) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
In the previous week, Gravity had 3 more articles in the media than Skillz. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gravity and 2 mentions for Skillz. Gravity's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Skillz's score of -0.34 indicating that Gravity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
19.4% of Skillz shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.9% of Gravity shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.7% of Skillz shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Skillz has a beta of 2.76, indicating that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gravity has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Skillz currently has a consensus price target of $11.50, suggesting a potential upside of 68.37%. Given Skillz's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Skillz is more favorable than Gravity.
Gravity has higher revenue and earnings than Skillz. Skillz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gravity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gravity received 151 more outperform votes than Skillz when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.92% of users gave Gravity an outperform vote while only 55.38% of users gave Skillz an outperform vote.
Gravity has a net margin of 16.96% compared to Skillz's net margin of -78.69%. Gravity's return on equity of 46.65% beat Skillz's return on equity.
Summary
Gravity beats Skillz on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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