DAY vs. NET, RBLX, HUBS, WIT, VEEV, BIDU, EA, ZS, GDDY, and IOT
Should you be buying Dayforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dayforce include Cloudflare (NET), Roblox (RBLX), HubSpot (HUBS), Wipro (WIT), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Baidu (BIDU), Electronic Arts (EA), Zscaler (ZS), GoDaddy (GDDY), and Samsara (IOT). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Dayforce vs.
Dayforce (NYSE:DAY) and Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
Dayforce has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dayforce currently has a consensus target price of $80.07, indicating a potential upside of 13.40%. Cloudflare has a consensus target price of $109.72, indicating a potential downside of 20.85%. Given Dayforce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Dayforce is more favorable than Cloudflare.
82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Dayforce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Cloudflare had 32 more articles in the media than Dayforce. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Cloudflare and 7 mentions for Dayforce. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Dayforce's score of 0.68 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dayforce has a net margin of 3.12% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -5.97%. Dayforce's return on equity of 6.69% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.
Dayforce has higher revenue and earnings than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dayforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cloudflare received 160 more outperform votes than Dayforce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.79% of users gave Dayforce an outperform vote while only 49.87% of users gave Cloudflare an outperform vote.
Summary
Dayforce beats Cloudflare on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DAY) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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