COUR vs. MTTR, MLNK, AVPT, AMPL, NYAX, LSPD, MTC, MKTW, XPER, and CLBT
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include Matterport (MTTR), MeridianLink (MLNK), AvePoint (AVPT), Amplitude (AMPL), Nayax (NYAX), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), MMTec (MTC), MarketWise (MKTW), Xperi (XPER), and Cellebrite DI (CLBT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Matterport (NASDAQ:MTTR) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Matterport has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Matterport currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.22%. Coursera has a consensus price target of $16.85, suggesting a potential upside of 98.47%. Given Matterport's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coursera is more favorable than Matterport.
37.0% of Matterport shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. 17.5% of Matterport shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Coursera shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Coursera had 12 more articles in the media than Matterport. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Coursera and 4 mentions for Matterport. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Matterport's score of 0.38 indicating that Matterport is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coursera has a net margin of -16.05% compared to Coursera's net margin of -113.62%. Matterport's return on equity of -16.03% beat Coursera's return on equity.
Coursera has higher revenue and earnings than Matterport. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matterport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coursera received 64 more outperform votes than Matterport when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 44.07% of users gave Matterport an outperform vote.
Summary
Coursera beats Matterport on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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