BAND vs. LSPD, JAMF, EVCM, OPRA, GDYN, NABL, MQ, SPT, PD, and MTTR
Should you be buying Bandwidth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bandwidth include Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Jamf (JAMF), EverCommerce (EVCM), Opera (OPRA), Grid Dynamics (GDYN), N-able (NABL), Marqeta (MQ), Sprout Social (SPT), PagerDuty (PD), and Matterport (MTTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Bandwidth vs.
Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) and Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
Bandwidth has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bandwidth has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lightspeed Commerce. Bandwidth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightspeed Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.5% of Bandwidth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Bandwidth shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bandwidth had 23 more articles in the media than Lightspeed Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Bandwidth and 6 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Bandwidth's score of 0.18 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bandwidth currently has a consensus target price of $28.33, suggesting a potential upside of 66.67%. Lightspeed Commerce has a consensus target price of $18.39, suggesting a potential upside of 39.82%. Given Bandwidth's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bandwidth is more favorable than Lightspeed Commerce.
Bandwidth has a net margin of -2.23% compared to Lightspeed Commerce's net margin of -11.75%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of 0.61% beat Bandwidth's return on equity.
Bandwidth received 327 more outperform votes than Lightspeed Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.36% of users gave Bandwidth an outperform vote while only 52.66% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote.
Summary
Lightspeed Commerce beats Bandwidth on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BAND) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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