DUOL vs. SPSC, KVYO, CFLT, PCOR, ESTC, BRZE, PATH, ZETA, CXM, and DOCU
Should you be buying Duolingo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duolingo include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Klaviyo (KVYO), Confluent (CFLT), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), Braze (BRZE), UiPath (PATH), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
SPS Commerce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Duolingo. SPS Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 7.82%. Duolingo's return on equity of 12.06% beat SPS Commerce's return on equity.
SPS Commerce received 596 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 41.25% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $200.25, indicating a potential upside of 2.14%. Duolingo has a consensus price target of $244.63, indicating a potential upside of 38.93%. Given SPS Commerce's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than SPS Commerce.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Duolingo shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Duolingo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 20 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Duolingo and 24 mentions for SPS Commerce. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Duolingo's score of 0.53 indicating that Duolingo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duolingo has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats Duolingo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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