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$162.40 -1.80 (-1.10%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

NICE vs. NET, EA, RBLX, HUBS, WIT, VEEV, ZS, BIDU, GDDY, and ZM

Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Cloudflare (NET), Electronic Arts (EA), Roblox (RBLX), HubSpot (HUBS), Wipro (WIT), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Zscaler (ZS), Baidu (BIDU), GoDaddy (GDDY), and Zoom Video Communications (ZM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

NICE vs.

NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) and Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and community ranking.

NICE has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

NICE received 488 more outperform votes than Cloudflare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.57% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 49.60% of users gave Cloudflare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
NICEOutperform Votes
672
69.57%
Underperform Votes
294
30.43%
CloudflareOutperform Votes
184
49.60%
Underperform Votes
187
50.40%

NICE has higher revenue and earnings than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NICE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
NICE$2.38B4.29$338.30M$6.4625.14
Cloudflare$1.57B25.57-$183.95M-$0.26-450.49

NICE presently has a consensus target price of $253.93, indicating a potential upside of 56.36%. Cloudflare has a consensus target price of $107.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.65%. Given NICE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe NICE is more favorable than Cloudflare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
NICE
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Cloudflare
3 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42

In the previous week, Cloudflare had 7 more articles in the media than NICE. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Cloudflare and 16 mentions for NICE. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat NICE's score of 0.80 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
NICE
8 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cloudflare
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

NICE has a net margin of 16.11% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -5.97%. NICE's return on equity of 15.31% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
NICE16.11% 15.31% 10.40%
Cloudflare -5.97%-7.18%-2.12%

63.3% of NICE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of NICE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NICE beats Cloudflare on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NICE vs. The Competition

MetricNICEPrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$10.21B$25.25B$26.81B$9.06B
Dividend YieldN/A2.01%2.77%4.02%
P/E Ratio25.1490.31233.0717.10
Price / Sales4.2928.623,177.36138.34
Price / Cash16.8582.5634.2735.97
Price / Book3.0412.638.384.80
Net Income$338.30M$444.67M$671.58M$224.91M
7 Day Performance0.46%2.46%2.05%1.90%
1 Month Performance-10.65%4.29%5.09%5.08%
1 Year Performance-20.06%30.29%26.50%21.15%

NICE Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NICE
NICE
4.0021 of 5 stars
$162.40
-1.1%
$253.93
+56.4%
-20.6%$10.21B$2.38B25.148,384Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
NET
Cloudflare
4.0531 of 5 stars
$109.59
-2.7%
$102.30
-6.7%
+52.0%$37.61B$1.57B-421.503,682Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Gap Up
EA
Electronic Arts
4.705 of 5 stars
$141.62
+0.5%
$165.37
+16.8%
+3.9%$37.14B$7.41B36.4113,700Insider Trade
News Coverage
RBLX
Roblox
3.0095 of 5 stars
$60.63
-1.9%
$56.14
-7.4%
+69.5%$36.84B$3.36B-36.972,457Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Gap Down
HUBS
HubSpot
4.0092 of 5 stars
$693.25
-1.6%
$719.30
+3.8%
+24.6%$35.79B$2.51B-2,567.507,663Analyst Downgrade
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
WIT
Wipro
0.7276 of 5 stars
$3.42
-2.8%
$5.60
+63.7%
-39.7%$35.74B$886.79B25.33240,000News Coverage
VEEV
Veeva Systems
4.536 of 5 stars
$211.53
-2.9%
$255.74
+20.9%
+7.4%$34.34B$2.66B52.235,480Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
ZS
Zscaler
4.2502 of 5 stars
$186.08
-2.1%
$224.84
+20.8%
-16.8%$28.55B$2.30B-744.327,348Analyst Revision
News Coverage
BIDU
Baidu
4.6153 of 5 stars
$78.26
+1.1%
$113.75
+45.3%
-18.9%$27.44B$134.84B9.5839,800
GDDY
GoDaddy
4.3728 of 5 stars
$192.31
-0.3%
$194.14
+1.0%
+87.8%$27.00B$4.48B14.866,910Insider Trade
News Coverage
ZM
Zoom Video Communications
4.6676 of 5 stars
$78.90
-0.7%
$87.81
+11.3%
+14.9%$24.18B$4.63B26.308,480Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
News Coverage

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