PCTY vs. GWRE, INFA, MNDY, GTLB, APPF, U, DBX, DAY, DSGX, and CDAY
Should you be buying Paylocity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paylocity include Guidewire Software (GWRE), Informatica (INFA), monday.com (MNDY), GitLab (GTLB), AppFolio (APPF), Unity Software (U), Dropbox (DBX), Dayforce (DAY), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and Ceridian HCM (CDAY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) and Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and dividends.
Paylocity presently has a consensus target price of $196.67, indicating a potential upside of 17.32%. Guidewire Software has a consensus target price of $115.11, indicating a potential upside of 0.27%. Given Paylocity's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Paylocity is more favorable than Guidewire Software.
Paylocity has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Guidewire Software's net margin of -5.48%. Paylocity's return on equity of 22.08% beat Guidewire Software's return on equity.
Paylocity has higher revenue and earnings than Guidewire Software. Guidewire Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paylocity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paylocity had 17 more articles in the media than Guidewire Software. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Paylocity and 11 mentions for Guidewire Software. Guidewire Software's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Paylocity's score of 0.70 indicating that Guidewire Software is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paylocity has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guidewire Software has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
94.8% of Paylocity shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.5% of Paylocity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Guidewire Software shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Paylocity received 129 more outperform votes than Guidewire Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Paylocity an outperform vote while only 63.74% of users gave Guidewire Software an outperform vote.
Summary
Paylocity beats Guidewire Software on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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