AVPT vs. COUR, MTTR, UP, GETY, MLNK, AMPL, HLMN, NYAX, LSPD, and ML
Should you be buying AvePoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AvePoint include Coursera (COUR), Matterport (MTTR), Wheels Up Experience (UP), Getty Images (GETY), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), Hillman Solutions (HLMN), Nayax (NYAX), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), and MoneyLion (ML).
AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, AvePoint had 7 more articles in the media than Coursera. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for AvePoint and 11 mentions for Coursera. AvePoint's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Coursera's score of 0.20 indicating that AvePoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AvePoint has a net margin of -4.91% compared to Coursera's net margin of -16.05%. AvePoint's return on equity of -6.56% beat Coursera's return on equity.
AvePoint currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 16.96%. Coursera has a consensus target price of $16.85, indicating a potential upside of 89.97%. Given Coursera's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Coursera is more favorable than AvePoint.
44.5% of AvePoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.8% of AvePoint shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Coursera shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AvePoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Coursera. AvePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coursera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AvePoint has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coursera received 74 more outperform votes than AvePoint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.94% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave AvePoint an outperform vote.
Summary
AvePoint beats Coursera on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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