CFLT vs. DDOG, HUBS, RBLX, TTD, WIT, VEEV, BIDU, EA, IOT, and ZS
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include Datadog (DDOG), HubSpot (HUBS), Roblox (RBLX), Trade Desk (TTD), Wipro (WIT), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Baidu (BIDU), Electronic Arts (EA), Samsara (IOT), and Zscaler (ZS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Confluent vs.
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
78.3% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Confluent shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Datadog shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Confluent shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Datadog received 178 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.10% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote while only 53.88% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
Datadog currently has a consensus target price of $158.39, indicating a potential upside of 32.35%. Confluent has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.87%. Given Datadog's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Datadog is more favorable than Confluent.
Datadog has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Confluent has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Datadog has a net margin of 6.85% compared to Confluent's net margin of -35.81%. Datadog's return on equity of 8.28% beat Confluent's return on equity.
In the previous week, Datadog had 3 more articles in the media than Confluent. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Datadog and 37 mentions for Confluent. Confluent's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Datadog's score of 0.61 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Datadog beats Confluent on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CFLT) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
