CRNC vs. BIGC, WEAV, DH, CGNT, BAND, MGIC, SCWX, DDD, MKTW, and XPER
Should you be buying Cerence stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cerence include BigCommerce (BIGC), Weave Communications (WEAV), Definitive Healthcare (DH), Cognyte Software (CGNT), Bandwidth (BAND), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), SecureWorks (SCWX), 3D Systems (DDD), MarketWise (MKTW), and Xperi (XPER). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) and Cerence (NASDAQ:CRNC) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
BigCommerce has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cerence has a beta of 2.57, suggesting that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
79.2% of BigCommerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of Cerence shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of BigCommerce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Cerence shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BigCommerce has a net margin of -15.39% compared to BigCommerce's net margin of -80.93%. BigCommerce's return on equity of 3.66% beat Cerence's return on equity.
Cerence received 27 more outperform votes than BigCommerce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.72% of users gave Cerence an outperform vote while only 44.03% of users gave BigCommerce an outperform vote.
BigCommerce presently has a consensus price target of $9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 16.81%. Cerence has a consensus price target of $10.08, suggesting a potential upside of 193.12%. Given BigCommerce's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cerence is more favorable than BigCommerce.
Cerence has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BigCommerce. BigCommerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cerence, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BigCommerce had 6 more articles in the media than Cerence. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for BigCommerce and 3 mentions for Cerence. Cerence's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat BigCommerce's score of 0.22 indicating that BigCommerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Cerence beats BigCommerce on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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