PUBM vs. RPD, EVCM, CERT, JAMF, MTTR, AVDX, PD, LSPD, OPRA, and AMPL
Should you be buying PubMatic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PubMatic include Rapid7 (RPD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Certara (CERT), Jamf (JAMF), Matterport (MTTR), AvidXchange (AVDX), PagerDuty (PD), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Opera (OPRA), and Amplitude (AMPL). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
PubMatic vs.
Rapid7 (NASDAQ:RPD) and PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
95.7% of Rapid7 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of PubMatic shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Rapid7 shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of PubMatic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rapid7 presently has a consensus target price of $39.94, suggesting a potential upside of 39.13%. PubMatic has a consensus target price of $19.89, suggesting a potential upside of 99.89%. Given PubMatic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PubMatic is more favorable than Rapid7.
Rapid7 received 494 more outperform votes than PubMatic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.22% of users gave PubMatic an outperform vote while only 56.12% of users gave Rapid7 an outperform vote.
Rapid7 has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PubMatic has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Rapid7 has higher revenue and earnings than PubMatic. PubMatic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rapid7, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Rapid7 had 5 more articles in the media than PubMatic. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Rapid7 and 12 mentions for PubMatic. PubMatic's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Rapid7's score of 0.50 indicating that PubMatic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PubMatic has a net margin of 5.96% compared to Rapid7's net margin of 3.46%. PubMatic's return on equity of 6.12% beat Rapid7's return on equity.
Summary
Rapid7 beats PubMatic on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PUBM) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
