SKIL vs. BLND, CINT, KIND, BBAI, BASE, BMBL, HUYA, SCWX, EVER, and PUBM
Should you be buying Skillsoft stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Skillsoft include Blend Labs (BLND), CI&T (CINT), Nextdoor (KIND), BigBear.ai (BBAI), Couchbase (BASE), Bumble (BMBL), HUYA (HUYA), SecureWorks (SCWX), EverQuote (EVER), and PubMatic (PUBM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Skillsoft vs.
Blend Labs (NYSE:BLND) and Skillsoft (NYSE:SKIL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Blend Labs has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Skillsoft has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Blend Labs had 4 more articles in the media than Skillsoft. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Blend Labs and 1 mentions for Skillsoft. Skillsoft's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Blend Labs' score of 0.10 indicating that Skillsoft is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Blend Labs has a net margin of -49.34% compared to Skillsoft's net margin of -62.85%. Blend Labs' return on equity of 0.00% beat Skillsoft's return on equity.
52.6% of Blend Labs shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of Skillsoft shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of Blend Labs shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.5% of Skillsoft shares are held 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.
Blend Labs currently has a consensus target price of $5.11, suggesting a potential upside of 26.57%. Skillsoft has a consensus target price of $35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.86%. Given Blend Labs' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Blend Labs is more favorable than Skillsoft.
Blend Labs has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Skillsoft. Blend Labs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Skillsoft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Blend Labs received 21 more outperform votes than Skillsoft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 43.75% of users gave Blend Labs an outperform vote while only 35.00% of users gave Skillsoft an outperform vote.
Summary
Blend Labs beats Skillsoft on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SKIL) was last updated on 2/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
