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C$4.55 -0.01 (-0.22%)
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BB vs. LSPD, DH, VDY, DCBO, PD, ABST, U, AI, DV, and FSY

Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), DH (DH), Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF (VDY), Docebo (DCBO), Precision Drilling (PD), Absolute Software (ABST), Uranium Participation (U), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), Dolly Varden Silver (DV), and Forsys Metals (FSY). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

BlackBerry vs.

Lightspeed Commerce (TSE:LSPD) and BlackBerry (TSE:BB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus price target of C$29.90, suggesting a potential upside of 26.00%. BlackBerry has a consensus price target of C$3.42, suggesting a potential downside of 24.91%. Given Lightspeed Commerce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lightspeed Commerce is more favorable than BlackBerry.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lightspeed Commerce
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
BlackBerry
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.69, indicating that its share price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Lightspeed Commerce has a net margin of -15.55% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -21.66%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of -6.24% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lightspeed Commerce-15.55% -6.24% -3.79%
BlackBerry -21.66%-17.68%-2.15%

62.8% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of BlackBerry shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of BlackBerry shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

BlackBerry received 262 more outperform votes than Lightspeed Commerce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.51% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 53.06% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Lightspeed CommerceOutperform Votes
198
68.51%
Underperform Votes
91
31.49%
BlackBerryOutperform Votes
460
53.06%
Underperform Votes
407
46.94%

BlackBerry has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lightspeed CommerceC$966.28M3.72-C$150.27M-C$1.34-17.71
BlackBerryC$637M4.22-C$138M-C$0.31-14.68

In the previous week, Lightspeed Commerce had 3 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce and 0 mentions for BlackBerry. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.00 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Lightspeed Commerce Neutral
BlackBerry Neutral

Summary

Lightspeed Commerce beats BlackBerry on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of TSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BB vs. The Competition

MetricBlackBerrySoftware IndustryComputer SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$2.69BC$353.96MC$24.68BC$5.69B
Dividend Yield3.44%2.78%2.69%5.76%
P/E Ratio-14.68943.70276.4428.26
Price / Sales4.2258,339.732,918.931,255.47
Price / Cash5.3914.5333.7478.50
Price / Book3.675.207.903.37
Net Income-C$138M-C$1.90MC$658.53MC$287.25M
7 Day Performance15.48%3.69%0.25%-2.16%
1 Month Performance35.01%8.21%10.62%2.05%
1 Year Performance-18.17%26.72%27.10%37.51%

BlackBerry Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BB
BlackBerry
0.4469 of 5 stars
C$4.55
-0.2%
C$3.42
-24.9%
-22.3%C$2.69BC$637M-14.683,320Gap Up
LSPD
Lightspeed Commerce
2.3629 of 5 stars
C$22.82
-1.3%
C$28.08
+23.1%
-1.6%C$3.46BC$966.28M-17.251,800News Coverage
DH
DH
N/AC$25.49
+∞
N/AN/AC$2.72BN/A0.00970Gap Up
VDY
Vanguard FTSE Canadian High Dividend Yield Index ETF
N/AC$49.56
-0.7%
N/A+18.7%C$2.20BN/A0.00790Positive News
DCBO
Docebo
2.2351 of 5 stars
C$71.37
-0.3%
C$88.00
+23.3%
+8.3%C$2.16BC$200.24M98.03730
PD
Precision Drilling
3.6341 of 5 stars
C$84.45
-1.9%
C$127.11
+50.5%
+16.3%C$1.19BC$1.91B5.38950
ABST
Absolute Software
N/AC$15.20
+0.1%
N/AN/AC$807.42MC$222.06M-23.03740
U
Uranium Participation
N/AC$5.11
-3.4%
N/AN/AC$768.65MC$-147,478,000.00-4.437,700
AI
Atrium Mortgage Investment
2.2554 of 5 stars
C$11.27
-0.9%
C$13.02
+15.5%
+7.8%C$501.74MC$56.76M10.93700
DV
Dolly Varden Silver
1.8312 of 5 stars
C$0.97
-3.0%
C$1.60
+64.9%
+21.5%C$304.89MN/A-11.11800Gap Up
FSY
Forsys Metals
N/AC$0.67
+3.1%
N/A-12.9%C$130.76MN/A-16.2520,300News Coverage

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This page (TSE:BB) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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