FRSH vs. GEN, BSY, SSNC, MANH, DT, NICE, MNDY, DOCU, PATH, and ESTC
Should you be buying Freshworks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freshworks include Gen Digital (GEN), Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Dynatrace (DT), NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), and Elastic (ESTC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Freshworks (NASDAQ:FRSH) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Freshworks has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gen Digital received 26 more outperform votes than Freshworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote while only 39.81% of users gave Freshworks an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gen Digital had 10 more articles in the media than Freshworks. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Gen Digital and 7 mentions for Freshworks. Freshworks' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.04 indicating that Freshworks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freshworks currently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 61.17%. Given Freshworks' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Freshworks is more favorable than Gen Digital.
75.6% of Freshworks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of Freshworks shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.16% compared to Freshworks' net margin of -18.93%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 49.04% beat Freshworks' return on equity.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Freshworks. Freshworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gen Digital beats Freshworks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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