FRSH vs. BLKB, ACIW, BOX, QTWO, WK, BL, CWAN, NCNO, ASAN, and CVLT
Should you be buying Freshworks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freshworks include Blackbaud (BLKB), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), BOX (BOX), Q2 (QTWO), Workiva (WK), BlackLine (BL), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), nCino (NCNO), Asana (ASAN), and Commvault Systems (CVLT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Freshworks (NASDAQ:FRSH) and Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
Blackbaud has a net margin of 1.94% compared to Freshworks' net margin of -18.93%. Blackbaud's return on equity of 16.66% beat Freshworks' return on equity.
Freshworks has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackbaud has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Blackbaud has higher revenue and earnings than Freshworks. Freshworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackbaud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Freshworks currently has a consensus target price of $22.59, indicating a potential upside of 65.60%. Blackbaud has a consensus target price of $88.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.97%. Given Freshworks' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Freshworks is more favorable than Blackbaud.
75.6% of Freshworks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Blackbaud shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of Freshworks shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Blackbaud shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Blackbaud received 345 more outperform votes than Freshworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.04% of users gave Blackbaud an outperform vote while only 39.25% of users gave Freshworks an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Blackbaud had 2 more articles in the media than Freshworks. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Blackbaud and 3 mentions for Freshworks. Freshworks' average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Blackbaud's score of 0.20 indicating that Freshworks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Blackbaud beats Freshworks on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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