BLKB vs. WK, CVLT, SATS, VERX, CWAN, ITRI, AVT, LPL, SLAB, and FROG
Should you be buying Blackbaud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackbaud include Workiva (WK), Commvault Systems (CVLT), EchoStar (SATS), Vertex (VERX), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), Itron (ITRI), Avnet (AVT), LG Display (LPL), Silicon Laboratories (SLAB), and JFrog (FROG). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Workiva (NYSE:WK) and Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Blackbaud has higher revenue and earnings than Workiva. Workiva is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackbaud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Workiva received 6 more outperform votes than Blackbaud when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.44% of users gave Workiva an outperform vote while only 60.98% of users gave Blackbaud an outperform vote.
Workiva has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackbaud has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Workiva currently has a consensus target price of $111.63, indicating a potential upside of 38.46%. Blackbaud has a consensus target price of $88.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.89%. Given Blackbaud's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Workiva is more favorable than Blackbaud.
92.2% of Workiva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Blackbaud shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Workiva shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Blackbaud shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Blackbaud has a net margin of 0.16% compared to Blackbaud's net margin of -20.24%. Workiva's return on equity of 14.59% beat Blackbaud's return on equity.
In the previous week, Blackbaud had 1 more articles in the media than Workiva. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Blackbaud and 8 mentions for Workiva. Workiva's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Blackbaud's score of 0.47 indicating that Blackbaud is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Blackbaud beats Workiva on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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