MQ vs. INST, ZETA, CXM, NABL, CLBT, LSPD, DLO, PAGS, BRZE, and COUR
Should you be buying Marqeta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marqeta include Instructure (INST), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), DLocal (DLO), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Braze (BRZE), and Coursera (COUR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and Instructure (NYSE:INST) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and earnings.
Instructure received 335 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.11% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Marqeta presently has a consensus target price of $7.43, indicating a potential upside of 32.03%. Instructure has a consensus target price of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 46.36%. Given Instructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
78.6% of Marqeta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Instructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Marqeta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Instructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Instructure has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Instructure had 5 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Instructure and 4 mentions for Marqeta. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Instructure's score of 0.57 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Instructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -32.98%. Instructure's return on equity of 7.29% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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