DBX vs. RP, PLAN, AYX, NCNO, BL, VEEV, ANSS, TTWO, MSTR, and NET
Should you be buying Dropbox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dropbox include RealPage (RP), Anaplan (PLAN), Alteryx (AYX), nCino (NCNO), BlackLine (BL), Veeva Systems (VEEV), ANSYS (ANSS), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), MicroStrategy (MSTR), and Cloudflare (NET).
RealPage (NASDAQ:RP) and Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Dropbox has a consensus target price of $29.78, suggesting a potential upside of 32.17%. Given RealPage's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dropbox is more favorable than RealPage.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than RealPage. Dropbox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RealPage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dropbox has a net margin of 20.50% compared to Dropbox's net margin of 4.79%. Dropbox's return on equity of 9.64% beat RealPage's return on equity.
RealPage received 97 more outperform votes than Dropbox when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.30% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 58.19% of users gave RealPage an outperform vote.
RealPage has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dropbox has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.9% of RealPage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Dropbox shares are held by institutional investors. 13.9% of RealPage shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.4% of Dropbox shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Dropbox had 12 more articles in the media than RealPage. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Dropbox and 0 mentions for RealPage. RealPage's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Dropbox's score of 0.00 indicating that Dropbox is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dropbox beats RealPage on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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