CYBR vs. CDAY, DAY, U, PAYC, TWLO, MNDY, INFA, GWRE, PCTY, and GTLB
Should you be buying CyberArk Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CyberArk Software include Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), Unity Software (U), Paycom Software (PAYC), Twilio (TWLO), monday.com (MNDY), Informatica (INFA), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paylocity (PCTY), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) and CyberArk Software (NASDAQ:CYBR) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Ceridian HCM currently has a consensus target price of $76.80, indicating a potential upside of 26.52%. CyberArk Software has a consensus target price of $265.63, indicating a potential upside of 13.72%. Given CyberArk Software's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than CyberArk Software.
Ceridian HCM has a net margin of 0.28% compared to Ceridian HCM's net margin of -3.20%. CyberArk Software's return on equity of 2.03% beat Ceridian HCM's return on equity.
In the previous week, CyberArk Software had 8 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for CyberArk Software and 2 mentions for Ceridian HCM. CyberArk Software's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Ceridian HCM's score of 0.73 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CyberArk Software received 527 more outperform votes than Ceridian HCM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.53% of users gave CyberArk Software an outperform vote while only 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote.
91.8% of CyberArk Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of CyberArk Software shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CyberArk Software has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ceridian HCM. CyberArk Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyberArk Software has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ceridian HCM beats CyberArk Software on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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