GEN vs. DOCU, PATH, ESTC, PCOR, CFLT, DUOL, SPSC, KVYO, BRZE, and SQ
Should you be buying Genesis Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genesis Healthcare include DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Confluent (CFLT), Duolingo (DUOL), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Klaviyo (KVYO), Braze (BRZE), and Block (SQ). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Genesis Healthcare (NYSE:GEN) and DocuSign (NASDAQ:DOCU) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Genesis Healthcare currently has a consensus price target of $25.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.88%. DocuSign has a consensus price target of $60.25, suggesting a potential upside of 0.05%. Given Genesis Healthcare's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genesis Healthcare is more favorable than DocuSign.
In the previous week, DocuSign had 1 more articles in the media than Genesis Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for DocuSign and 7 mentions for Genesis Healthcare. DocuSign's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Genesis Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that DocuSign is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
82.1% of Genesis Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of DocuSign shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Genesis Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of DocuSign shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Genesis Healthcare received 56 more outperform votes than DocuSign when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.73% of users gave Genesis Healthcare an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave DocuSign an outperform vote.
Genesis Healthcare has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DocuSign has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Genesis Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than DocuSign. Genesis Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DocuSign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Genesis Healthcare has a net margin of 17.83% compared to DocuSign's net margin of 2.68%. Genesis Healthcare's return on equity of 155.48% beat DocuSign's return on equity.
Summary
Genesis Healthcare beats DocuSign on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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