ZUO vs. BILL, SMAR, QLYS, VERX, TENB, VRNS, ZI, GLBE, CVLT, and CWAN
Should you be buying Zuora stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zuora include BILL (BILL), Smartsheet (SMAR), Qualys (QLYS), Vertex (VERX), Tenable (TENB), Varonis Systems (VRNS), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Global-E Online (GLBE), Commvault Systems (CVLT), and Clearwater Analytics (CWAN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BILL (NYSE:BILL) and Zuora (NYSE:ZUO) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
Zuora has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BILL. BILL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zuora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BILL had 62 more articles in the media than Zuora. MarketBeat recorded 74 mentions for BILL and 12 mentions for Zuora. BILL's average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat Zuora's score of 0.00 indicating that Zuora is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.0% of BILL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Zuora shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of BILL shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Zuora shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BILL currently has a consensus target price of $96.65, suggesting a potential upside of 88.59%. Zuora has a consensus target price of $12.17, suggesting a potential upside of 24.15%. Given Zuora's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BILL is more favorable than Zuora.
Zuora received 69 more outperform votes than BILL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.14% of users gave Zuora an outperform vote while only 55.93% of users gave BILL an outperform vote.
BILL has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zuora has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BILL has a net margin of -4.21% compared to BILL's net margin of -14.28%. Zuora's return on equity of 0.98% beat BILL's return on equity.
Summary
BILL and Zuora tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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