SPNS vs. ACIW, BLKB, SWI, PLUS, NTCT, VRNT, PRO, DMRC, SNCR, and VHC
Should you be buying Sapiens International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sapiens International include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Blackbaud (BLKB), SolarWinds (SWI), ePlus (PLUS), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Verint Systems (VRNT), PROS (PRO), Digimarc (DMRC), Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), and VirnetX (VHC). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Sapiens International vs.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 14.04% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of 13.31%. ACI Worldwide's return on equity of 21.67% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
Sapiens International presently has a consensus target price of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.86%. ACI Worldwide has a consensus target price of $49.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.10%. Given Sapiens International's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sapiens International is more favorable than ACI Worldwide.
In the previous week, Sapiens International had 16 more articles in the media than ACI Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Sapiens International and 9 mentions for ACI Worldwide. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Sapiens International's score of -0.07 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Sapiens International. Sapiens International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACI Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACI Worldwide received 2 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.11% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 62.99% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Sapiens International on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SPNS) was last updated on 2/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
