AMPL vs. MLNK, MTTR, NYAX, AVPT, COUR, MKTW, XPER, LSPD, CLBT, and NABL
Should you be buying Amplitude stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amplitude include MeridianLink (MLNK), Matterport (MTTR), Nayax (NYAX), AvePoint (AVPT), Coursera (COUR), MarketWise (MKTW), Xperi (XPER), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), and N-able (NABL). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
MeridianLink (NYSE:MLNK) and Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Amplitude had 20 more articles in the media than MeridianLink. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Amplitude and 14 mentions for MeridianLink. MeridianLink's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Amplitude's score of 0.06 indicating that Amplitude is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Amplitude received 3 more outperform votes than MeridianLink when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 28.07% of users gave Amplitude an outperform vote while only 27.08% of users gave MeridianLink an outperform vote.
MeridianLink has a net margin of -13.86% compared to MeridianLink's net margin of -30.28%. Amplitude's return on equity of -6.72% beat MeridianLink's return on equity.
MeridianLink presently has a consensus target price of $19.60, indicating a potential upside of 15.50%. Amplitude has a consensus target price of $11.20, indicating a potential upside of 21.48%. Given MeridianLink's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amplitude is more favorable than MeridianLink.
82.7% of MeridianLink shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Amplitude shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of MeridianLink shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of Amplitude shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MeridianLink has higher revenue and earnings than Amplitude. MeridianLink is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amplitude, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MeridianLink has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amplitude has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MeridianLink beats Amplitude on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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