SWI vs. SPNS, ACIW, BLKB, PD, SEMR, FSLY, EVCM, BB, PRGS, and INTA
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include Sapiens International (SPNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Blackbaud (BLKB), PagerDuty (PD), Semrush (SEMR), Fastly (FSLY), EverCommerce (EVCM), BlackBerry (BB), Progress Software (PRGS), and Intapp (INTA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Sapiens International had 10 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Sapiens International and 9 mentions for SolarWinds. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.44 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sapiens International presently has a consensus price target of $35.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.23%. SolarWinds has a consensus price target of $13.80, suggesting a potential upside of 19.17%. Given Sapiens International's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than Sapiens International.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of 1.58%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 16.92% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
SolarWinds received 52 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.95% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sapiens International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SolarWinds. Sapiens International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sapiens International beats SolarWinds on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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