PRFT vs. PRO, DAVA, FORTY, PERI, GAN, HCP, ACMR, EVCM, BB, and MRCY
Should you be buying Perficient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perficient include PROS (PRO), Endava (DAVA), Formula Systems (1985) (FORTY), Perion Network (PERI), GAN (GAN), HashiCorp (HCP), ACM Research (ACMR), EverCommerce (EVCM), BlackBerry (BB), and Mercury Systems (MRCY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) and PROS (NYSE:PRO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
Perficient has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PROS has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perficient currently has a consensus target price of $69.67, suggesting a potential upside of 62.05%. PROS has a consensus target price of $40.20, suggesting a potential upside of 18.30%. Given Perficient's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Perficient is more favorable than PROS.
95.0% of Perficient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of PROS shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Perficient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PROS shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, PROS had 23 more articles in the media than Perficient. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for PROS and 8 mentions for Perficient. Perficient's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat PROS's score of 0.32 indicating that Perficient is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Perficient has a net margin of 10.91% compared to PROS's net margin of -18.56%. Perficient's return on equity of 23.39% beat PROS's return on equity.
Perficient has higher revenue and earnings than PROS. PROS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perficient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PROS received 150 more outperform votes than Perficient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.66% of users gave PROS an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave Perficient an outperform vote.
Summary
Perficient beats PROS on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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