SPSC vs. AKAM, YELP, ZD, CMPR, QNST, LQDT, OPEN, ANGI, TTGT, and BCOV
Should you be buying SPS Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SPS Commerce include Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Yelp (YELP), Ziff Davis (ZD), Cimpress (CMPR), QuinStreet (QNST), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Angi (ANGI), TechTarget (TTGT), and Brightcove (BCOV). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
SPS Commerce vs.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Akamai Technologies has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SPS Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $207.11, indicating a potential upside of 53.42%. Akamai Technologies has a consensus price target of $106.55, indicating a potential upside of 30.18%. Given SPS Commerce's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than Akamai Technologies.
Akamai Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than SPS Commerce. Akamai Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Akamai Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Akamai Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Akamai Technologies received 588 more outperform votes than SPS Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.54% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 68.41% of users gave Akamai Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Akamai Technologies had 13 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Akamai Technologies and 12 mentions for SPS Commerce. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Akamai Technologies' score of 0.67 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Akamai Technologies has a net margin of 12.65% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 12.08%. Akamai Technologies' return on equity of 14.35% beat SPS Commerce's return on equity.
Summary
Akamai Technologies beats SPS Commerce on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SPSC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
