MQ vs. INST, ZETA, CXM, NABL, CLBT, LSPD, COUR, PAGS, DLO, and BRZE
Should you be buying Marqeta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marqeta include Instructure (INST), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Coursera (COUR), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), DLocal (DLO), and Braze (BRZE). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, Marqeta had 16 more articles in the media than Instructure. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Marqeta and 15 mentions for Instructure. Instructure's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Marqeta's score of 0.37 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Instructure presently has a consensus price target of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 49.91%. Marqeta has a consensus price target of $7.43, suggesting a potential upside of 34.91%. Given Marqeta's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
Instructure received 334 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
97.1% of Instructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Instructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Marqeta shares are held by 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.
Instructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Instructure's net margin of -32.98%. Marqeta's return on equity of 7.28% beat Instructure's return on equity.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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