EGAN vs. SSTI, KLTR, CANG, CRNC, AEYE, CMCM, XNET, DOMO, ONTF, and PRCH
Should you be buying eGain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eGain include SoundThinking (SSTI), Kaltura (KLTR), Cango (CANG), Cerence (CRNC), AudioEye (AEYE), Cheetah Mobile (CMCM), Xunlei (XNET), Domo (DOMO), ON24 (ONTF), and Porch Group (PRCH). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
eGain (NASDAQ:EGAN) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
eGain received 20 more outperform votes than SoundThinking when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave eGain an outperform vote while only 68.40% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.
53.9% of eGain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by institutional investors. 34.3% of eGain shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by 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.
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.
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.
In the previous week, SoundThinking had 33 more articles in the media than eGain. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for SoundThinking and 2 mentions for eGain. eGain's average media sentiment score of 1.85 beat SoundThinking's score of -0.10 indicating that eGain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
eGain has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
eGain presently has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 51.03%. SoundThinking has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 60.28%. Given SoundThinking's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SoundThinking is more favorable than eGain.
Summary
eGain beats SoundThinking on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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