STN vs. CART, CFLT, PCOR, COHR, APG, WEX, AFRM, FCN, ESTC, and DUOL
Should you be buying Stantec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stantec include Maplebear (CART), Confluent (CFLT), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Coherent (COHR), APi Group (APG), WEX (WEX), Affirm (AFRM), FTI Consulting (FCN), Elastic (ESTC), and Duolingo (DUOL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Stantec (NYSE:STN) and Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.
63.9% of Stantec shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Maplebear shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Stantec shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.0% of Maplebear shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Maplebear had 1 more articles in the media than Stantec. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Maplebear and 14 mentions for Stantec. Maplebear's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Stantec's score of 0.20 indicating that Maplebear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stantec has higher revenue and earnings than Maplebear.
Stantec currently has a consensus price target of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.68%. Maplebear has a consensus price target of $41.05, suggesting a potential upside of 19.20%. Given Stantec's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Stantec is more favorable than Maplebear.
Stantec has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Maplebear's net margin of 0.00%. Stantec's return on equity of 16.51% beat Maplebear's return on equity.
Stantec received 370 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.91% of users gave Stantec an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
Summary
Stantec beats Maplebear on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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