SWI vs. SPNS, ACIW, BLKB, PD, EVCM, SEMR, PRGS, BB, APPN, and ZUO
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include Sapiens International (SPNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Blackbaud (BLKB), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Semrush (SEMR), Progress Software (PRGS), BlackBerry (BB), Appian (APPN), and Zuora (ZUO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
SolarWinds received 52 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.95% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.52% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of 1.58%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 17.41% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
Sapiens International presently has a consensus target price of $35.33, suggesting a potential upside of 1.39%. SolarWinds has a consensus target price of $13.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.67%. Given Sapiens International's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than Sapiens International.
In the previous week, SolarWinds had 3 more articles in the media than Sapiens International. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SolarWinds and 2 mentions for Sapiens International. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.97 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sapiens International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SolarWinds. Sapiens International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sapiens International beats SolarWinds on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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