UPWK vs. RAMP, EVTC, CARG, DXC, CD, MARA, BILI, PEGA, STNE, and PAGS
Should you be buying Upwork stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Upwork include LiveRamp (RAMP), EVERTEC (EVTC), CarGurus (CARG), DXC Technology (DXC), Chindata Group (CD), Marathon Digital (MARA), Bilibili (BILI), Pegasystems (PEGA), StoneCo (STNE), and PagSeguro Digital (PAGS).
Upwork (NASDAQ:UPWK) and LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Upwork presently has a consensus target price of $17.80, indicating a potential upside of 63.60%. LiveRamp has a consensus target price of $50.25, indicating a potential upside of 62.15%. Given Upwork's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Upwork is more favorable than LiveRamp.
Upwork has higher revenue and earnings than LiveRamp. Upwork is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LiveRamp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Upwork has a net margin of 6.70% compared to LiveRamp's net margin of 1.80%. Upwork's return on equity of 13.96% beat LiveRamp's return on equity.
77.7% of Upwork shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Upwork shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of LiveRamp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, LiveRamp had 23 more articles in the media than Upwork. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for LiveRamp and 7 mentions for Upwork. LiveRamp's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Upwork's score of 0.40 indicating that LiveRamp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Upwork received 57 more outperform votes than LiveRamp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.78% of users gave LiveRamp an outperform vote while only 56.79% of users gave Upwork an outperform vote.
Upwork has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
Upwork beats LiveRamp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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