BWXT vs. PCTY, VIPS, CACI, GWRE, ONTO, INFA, MNDY, GTLB, GNRC, and APPF
Should you be buying BWX Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BWX Technologies include Paylocity (PCTY), Vipshop (VIPS), CACI International (CACI), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Onto Innovation (ONTO), Informatica (INFA), monday.com (MNDY), GitLab (GTLB), Generac (GNRC), and AppFolio (APPF). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) and BWX Technologies (NYSE:BWXT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Paylocity has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Paylocity's net margin of 9.85%. Paylocity's return on equity of 32.38% beat BWX Technologies' return on equity.
Paylocity has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BWX Technologies has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
94.8% of Paylocity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of BWX Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.5% of Paylocity shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of BWX Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Paylocity received 171 more outperform votes than BWX Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Paylocity an outperform vote while only 59.48% of users gave BWX Technologies an outperform vote.
BWX Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Paylocity. BWX Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paylocity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paylocity had 3 more articles in the media than BWX Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Paylocity and 23 mentions for BWX Technologies. Paylocity's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat BWX Technologies' score of 0.59 indicating that BWX Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paylocity currently has a consensus target price of $196.67, suggesting a potential upside of 20.07%. BWX Technologies has a consensus target price of $92.43, suggesting a potential upside of 3.95%. Given BWX Technologies' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Paylocity is more favorable than BWX Technologies.
Summary
Paylocity beats BWX Technologies on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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