NICE vs. BKI, CDAY, AVLR, NUAN, FIVN, PLTR, ADSK, TEAM, DDOG, and SQ
Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Black Knight (BKI), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Avalara (AVLR), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Five9 (FIVN), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), and Block (SQ).
NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) and Black Knight (NYSE:BKI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
63.3% of NICE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Black Knight shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of NICE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Black Knight shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, NICE had 26 more articles in the media than Black Knight. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for NICE and 4 mentions for Black Knight. NICE's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Black Knight's score of 0.00 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Knight has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NICE. NICE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Knight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NICE currently has a consensus price target of $285.92, suggesting a potential upside of 55.76%. Black Knight has a consensus price target of $75.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.00%. Given NICE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NICE is more favorable than Black Knight.
NICE has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Knight has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NICE received 260 more outperform votes than Black Knight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.98% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Black Knight an outperform vote.
Black Knight has a net margin of 16.09% compared to NICE's net margin of 14.92%. NICE's return on equity of 14.05% beat Black Knight's return on equity.
Summary
NICE beats Black Knight on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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