PATH vs. DDOG, SQ, EA, VEEV, HUBS, MSTR, ANSS, TTWO, NET, and MDB
Should you be buying UiPath stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UiPath include Datadog (DDOG), Block (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Cloudflare (NET), and MongoDB (MDB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
Datadog received 138 more outperform votes than UiPath when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.32% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote while only 43.49% of users gave UiPath an outperform vote.
62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of UiPath shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Datadog shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than UiPath. UiPath is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UiPath presently has a consensus price target of $19.59, suggesting a potential upside of 59.77%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $137.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.80%. Given UiPath's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe UiPath is more favorable than Datadog.
In the previous week, UiPath had 72 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 91 mentions for UiPath and 19 mentions for Datadog. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat UiPath's score of -0.07 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UiPath has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Datadog has a net margin of 5.11% compared to UiPath's net margin of -6.41%. Datadog's return on equity of 7.48% beat UiPath's return on equity.
Summary
Datadog beats UiPath on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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