APPF vs. CDAY, INFA, MNDY, DAY, GTLB, PCTY, GWRE, DSGX, U, and DBX
Should you be buying AppFolio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppFolio include Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Informatica (INFA), monday.com (MNDY), Dayforce (DAY), GitLab (GTLB), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Unity Software (U), and Dropbox (DBX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) and AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Ceridian HCM received 20 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
Ceridian HCM presently has a consensus price target of $76.80, suggesting a potential upside of 29.77%. AppFolio has a consensus price target of $241.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.60%. Given AppFolio's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than AppFolio.
Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
62.3% of AppFolio shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of AppFolio shares are owned by 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.
AppFolio has a net margin of 11.38% compared to AppFolio's net margin of 0.28%. Ceridian HCM's return on equity of 13.51% beat AppFolio's return on equity.
AppFolio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ceridian HCM. AppFolio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AppFolio had 3 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for AppFolio and 1 mentions for Ceridian HCM. Ceridian HCM's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat AppFolio's score of 0.84 indicating that AppFolio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
AppFolio beats Ceridian HCM on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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