FSLY vs. OPRA, ENFN, PDFS, BASE, DCBO, VTEX, EVBG, TUYA, ZUO, and MOMO
Should you be buying Fastly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fastly include Opera (OPRA), Enfusion (ENFN), PDF Solutions (PDFS), Couchbase (BASE), Docebo (DCBO), VTEX (VTEX), Everbridge (EVBG), Tuya (TUYA), Zuora (ZUO), and Hello Group (MOMO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) and Opera (NASDAQ:OPRA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Fastly received 15 more outperform votes than Opera when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.73% of users gave Opera an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
79.7% of Fastly shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Opera shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of Fastly shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 84.4% of Opera shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fastly presently has a consensus target price of $14.61, suggesting a potential upside of 67.94%. Opera has a consensus target price of $21.17, suggesting a potential upside of 59.75%. Given Fastly's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Fastly is more favorable than Opera.
Opera has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fastly. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Opera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Opera has a net margin of 41.00% compared to Fastly's net margin of -25.26%. Opera's return on equity of 19.52% beat Fastly's return on equity.
Fastly has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Opera has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Opera had 21 more articles in the media than Fastly. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Opera and 8 mentions for Fastly. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Opera's score of 0.14 indicating that Fastly is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Opera beats Fastly on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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