AFRM vs. ESTC, PATH, APG, WPP, PCOR, CLH, CFLT, CART, DOCU, and IPG
Should you be buying Affirm stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affirm include Elastic (ESTC), UiPath (PATH), APi Group (APG), WPP (WPP), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Clean Harbors (CLH), Confluent (CFLT), Maplebear (CART), DocuSign (DOCU), and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) and Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Elastic has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Affirm has a beta of 3.56, meaning that its stock price is 256% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Elastic had 8 more articles in the media than Affirm. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Elastic and 4 mentions for Affirm. Affirm's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Elastic's score of 0.03 indicating that Elastic is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Elastic has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Affirm. Affirm is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elastic has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Elastic's net margin of -32.17%. Elastic's return on equity of -22.06% beat Affirm's return on equity.
Elastic currently has a consensus target price of $111.26, suggesting a potential upside of 1.07%. Affirm has a consensus target price of $27.53, suggesting a potential downside of 18.63%. Given Affirm's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than Affirm.
97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Affirm shares are held by institutional investors. 18.1% of Elastic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Affirm shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Elastic received 233 more outperform votes than Affirm when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.45% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote while only 33.50% of users gave Affirm an outperform vote.
Summary
Elastic beats Affirm on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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