BB vs. SWI, PD, EVCM, SPNS, PRGS, SEMR, AVDX, RPD, SPT, and APPN
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include SolarWinds (SWI), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Sapiens International (SPNS), Progress Software (PRGS), Semrush (SEMR), AvidXchange (AVDX), Rapid7 (RPD), Sprout Social (SPT), and Appian (APPN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
SolarWinds has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BlackBerry. BlackBerry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SolarWinds presently has a consensus target price of $13.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.67%. BlackBerry has a consensus target price of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 38.89%. Given SolarWinds' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than SolarWinds.
In the previous week, BlackBerry had 2 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for BlackBerry and 5 mentions for SolarWinds. BlackBerry's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.53 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SolarWinds has a net margin of 1.58% compared to SolarWinds' net margin of -15.24%. BlackBerry's return on equity of 6.47% beat SolarWinds' return on equity.
BlackBerry received 385 more outperform votes than SolarWinds when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
Summary
SolarWinds beats BlackBerry on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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