AFRM vs. ESTC, PATH, APG, WPP, PCOR, CLH, CFLT, CART, DOCU, and IPG
Should you be buying Affirm stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affirm include Elastic (ESTC), UiPath (PATH), APi Group (APG), WPP (WPP), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Clean Harbors (CLH), Confluent (CFLT), Maplebear (CART), DocuSign (DOCU), and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
Affirm presently has a consensus price target of $27.53, suggesting a potential downside of 14.77%. Elastic has a consensus price target of $111.26, suggesting a potential upside of 0.03%. Given Elastic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than Affirm.
Affirm has a beta of 3.56, meaning that its stock price is 256% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Elastic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Affirm. Affirm is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elastic received 233 more outperform votes than Affirm when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.45% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote while only 33.50% of users gave Affirm an outperform vote.
Elastic has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Affirm's net margin of -32.17%. Affirm's return on equity of -22.06% beat Elastic's return on equity.
69.3% of Affirm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of Affirm shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Affirm and Affirm both had 12 articles in the media. Elastic's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Affirm's score of 0.41 indicating that Elastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Elastic beats Affirm on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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