BL vs. ACIW, TDC, BOX, ASAN, NCNO, CWAN, SVFCX, BLKB, FROG, and PYCR
Should you be buying BlackLine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackLine include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Teradata (TDC), BOX (BOX), Asana (ASAN), nCino (NCNO), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), Smead Value C (SVFCX), Blackbaud (BLKB), JFrog (FROG), and Paycor HCM (PYCR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) and BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of BlackLine shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of BlackLine shares are owned by company 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.
ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackLine has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ACI Worldwide presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.48%. BlackLine has a consensus target price of $62.56, suggesting a potential upside of 3.52%. Given BlackLine's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe ACI Worldwide is more favorable than BlackLine.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 3 more articles in the media than BlackLine. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 14 mentions for BlackLine. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat BlackLine's score of 0.38 indicating that BlackLine is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 9.88% compared to ACI Worldwide's net margin of -1.50%. BlackLine's return on equity of 17.31% beat ACI Worldwide's return on equity.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than BlackLine. BlackLine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACI Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackLine received 77 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.39% of users gave BlackLine an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats BlackLine on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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