KXS vs. LSPD, ENGH, DCBO, DSG, OTEX, NVEI, BB, ET, CLS, and DND Should you be buying Kinaxis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kinaxis include Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Enghouse Systems (ENGH), Docebo (DCBO), The Descartes Systems Group (DSG), Open Text (OTEX), Nuvei (NVEI), BlackBerry (BB), Evertz Technologies (ET), Celestica (CLS), and Dye & Durham (DND). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Lightspeed Commerce (TSE:LSPD ) and Kinaxis (TSE:KXS ) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Kinaxis has a net margin of 3.38% compared to Kinaxis' net margin of -23.85%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of 3.42% beat Kinaxis' return on equity.
Kinaxis received 274 more outperform votes than Lightspeed Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.40% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 63.31% of users gave Kinaxis an outperform vote.
Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus price target of C$25.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.49%. Kinaxis has a consensus price target of C$199.44, suggesting a potential upside of 27.67%. Given Lightspeed Commerce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kinaxis is more favorable than Lightspeed Commerce.
Kinaxis has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kinaxis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.67, suggesting that its stock price is 167% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kinaxis has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lightspeed Commerce had 5 more articles in the media than Kinaxis. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce and 7 mentions for Kinaxis. Kinaxis' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Lightspeed Commerce's score of 0.25 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.6% of Kinaxis shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Kinaxis shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary Kinaxis beats Lightspeed Commerce on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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