ASUR vs. CSPI, PLMI, TZOO, TLS, STRM, UIS, OSPN, RBBN, KLTR, and OOMA
Should you be buying Asure Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asure Software include CSP (CSPI), Plum Acquisition Corp. I (PLMI), Travelzoo (TZOO), Telos (TLS), Streamline Health Solutions (STRM), Unisys (UIS), OneSpan (OSPN), Ribbon Communications (RBBN), Kaltura (KLTR), and Ooma (OOMA).
Asure Software (NASDAQ:ASUR) and CSP (NASDAQ:CSPI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
CSP has a net margin of 6.33% compared to Asure Software's net margin of -7.74%. CSP's return on equity of 8.76% beat Asure Software's return on equity.
71.6% of Asure Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.7% of CSP shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Asure Software shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.3% of CSP shares are held by 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, Asure Software had 6 more articles in the media than CSP. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Asure Software and 4 mentions for CSP. Asure Software's average media sentiment score of 0.16 beat CSP's score of 0.12 indicating that Asure Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Asure Software has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CSP has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Asure Software received 148 more outperform votes than CSP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.65% of users gave Asure Software an outperform vote while only 63.34% of users gave CSP an outperform vote.
Asure Software presently has a consensus price target of $14.25, indicating a potential upside of 96.01%. Given Asure Software's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Asure Software is more favorable than CSP.
CSP has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Asure Software. Asure Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSP beats Asure Software on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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