INST vs. MQ, ZETA, NABL, CLBT, CXM, LSPD, BRZE, COUR, AVPT, and MTTR
Should you be buying Instructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Instructure include Marqeta (MQ), Zeta Global (ZETA), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Sprinklr (CXM), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Braze (BRZE), Coursera (COUR), AvePoint (AVPT), and Matterport (MTTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
97.1% of Instructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Instructure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Marqeta shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Instructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure presently has a consensus target price of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 49.91%. Marqeta has a consensus target price of $7.43, indicating a potential upside of 34.91%. Given Instructure's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
Instructure has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marqeta had 14 more articles in the media than Instructure. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Marqeta and 15 mentions for Instructure. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Instructure's score of 0.37 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Instructure received 334 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -32.98%. Instructure's return on equity of 7.28% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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