LPSN vs. AWRE, MRDB, NTWK, UPLD, CLPS, WIMI, LDTC, SMSI, TWOU, and AUID
Should you be buying LivePerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LivePerson include Aware (AWRE), MariaDB (MRDB), NetSol Technologies (NTWK), Upland Software (UPLD), CLPS Incorporation (CLPS), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), LeddarTech (LDTC), Smith Micro Software (SMSI), 2U (TWOU), and authID (AUID). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN) and Aware (NASDAQ:AWRE) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
LivePerson currently has a consensus target price of $2.58, suggesting a potential upside of 391.13%. Given LivePerson's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LivePerson is more favorable than Aware.
79.8% of LivePerson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of Aware shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of LivePerson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.6% of Aware shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LivePerson has a net margin of -24.99% compared to Aware's net margin of -40.09%. Aware's return on equity of -14.28% beat LivePerson's return on equity.
LivePerson received 361 more outperform votes than Aware when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Aware an outperform vote while only 58.63% of users gave LivePerson an outperform vote.
LivePerson has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aware has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aware had 91 more articles in the media than LivePerson. MarketBeat recorded 100 mentions for Aware and 9 mentions for LivePerson. Aware's average media sentiment score of -0.06 beat LivePerson's score of -0.20 indicating that Aware is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aware has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LivePerson. Aware is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LivePerson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LivePerson beats Aware on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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