ASAN vs. NICE, MNDY, DOCU, PATH, ESTC, CYBR, TWLO, PCOR, GWRE, and PAYC
Should you be buying Asana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asana include NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Twilio (TWLO), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and Paycom Software (PAYC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Asana (NYSE:ASAN) and NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
NICE received 576 more outperform votes than Asana when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.98% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 43.13% of users gave Asana an outperform vote.
Asana has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NICE has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NICE had 22 more articles in the media than Asana. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for NICE and 16 mentions for Asana. NICE's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Asana's score of 0.27 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Asana presently has a consensus target price of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 48.00%. NICE has a consensus target price of $285.92, suggesting a potential upside of 50.24%. Given NICE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NICE is more favorable than Asana.
NICE has a net margin of 14.92% compared to Asana's net margin of -39.39%. NICE's return on equity of 14.05% beat Asana's return on equity.
26.2% of Asana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of NICE shares are held by institutional investors. 64.0% of Asana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of NICE shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
NICE has higher revenue and earnings than Asana. Asana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NICE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NICE beats Asana on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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