PCTY vs. GWRE, DAY, U, MNDY, CDAY, CYBR, APPF, INFA, PAYC, and GTLB
Should you be buying Paylocity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paylocity include Guidewire Software (GWRE), Dayforce (DAY), Unity Software (U), monday.com (MNDY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), CyberArk Software (CYBR), AppFolio (APPF), Informatica (INFA), Paycom Software (PAYC), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) and Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Guidewire Software has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paylocity has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Paylocity has higher revenue and earnings than Guidewire Software. Guidewire Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paylocity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.8% of Paylocity shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Guidewire Software shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of Paylocity shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Paylocity had 3 more articles in the media than Guidewire Software. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Paylocity and 4 mentions for Guidewire Software. Paylocity's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Guidewire Software's score of 0.62 indicating that Guidewire Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paylocity received 129 more outperform votes than Guidewire Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Paylocity an outperform vote while only 63.74% of users gave Guidewire Software an outperform vote.
Paylocity has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Paylocity's net margin of -5.48%. Guidewire Software's return on equity of 22.08% beat Paylocity's return on equity.
Guidewire Software currently has a consensus price target of $115.11, suggesting a potential downside of 1.06%. Paylocity has a consensus price target of $196.67, suggesting a potential upside of 17.81%. Given Guidewire Software's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Paylocity is more favorable than Guidewire Software.
Summary
Paylocity beats Guidewire Software on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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