NTNX vs. BSY, SSNC, OKTA, NICE, DT, MANH, CHKP, MSTR, TWLO, and PAYC
Should you be buying Nutanix stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nutanix include Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Okta (OKTA), NICE (NICE), Dynatrace (DT), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Twilio (TWLO), and Paycom Software (PAYC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) and Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Bentley Systems currently has a consensus target price of $58.44, suggesting a potential upside of 6.40%. Nutanix has a consensus target price of $65.17, suggesting a potential downside of 0.23%. Given Nutanix's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bentley Systems is more favorable than Nutanix.
44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Nutanix shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Bentley Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nutanix shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bentley Systems has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nutanix has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bentley Systems has a net margin of 26.60% compared to Bentley Systems' net margin of -3.84%. Nutanix's return on equity of 33.87% beat Bentley Systems' return on equity.
In the previous week, Bentley Systems had 8 more articles in the media than Nutanix. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bentley Systems and 6 mentions for Nutanix. Bentley Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Nutanix's score of 0.91 indicating that Nutanix is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bentley Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nutanix. Nutanix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nutanix received 607 more outperform votes than Bentley Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.61% of users gave Nutanix an outperform vote while only 61.80% of users gave Bentley Systems an outperform vote.
Summary
Bentley Systems beats Nutanix on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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