QLYS vs. SPSC, CVLT, ALRM, AI, PRGS, BILL, S, ZI, FRSH, and TENB
Should you be buying Qualys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Qualys include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Commvault Systems (CVLT), Alarm.com (ALRM), C3.ai (AI), Progress Software (PRGS), BILL (BILL), SentinelOne (S), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Freshworks (FRSH), and Tenable (TENB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
SPS Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $196.57, suggesting a potential upside of 9.84%. Qualys has a consensus price target of $154.57, suggesting a potential downside of 9.27%. Given Qualys' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than Qualys.
SPS Commerce received 114 more outperform votes than Qualys when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.82% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 59.95% of users gave Qualys an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qualys has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Qualys has a net margin of 27.34% compared to Qualys' net margin of 12.23%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 49.06% beat Qualys' return on equity.
Qualys has higher revenue and earnings than SPS Commerce. Qualys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SPS Commerce had 14 more articles in the media than Qualys. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for SPS Commerce and 11 mentions for Qualys. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Qualys' score of 0.50 indicating that Qualys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Qualys shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Qualys shares are owned 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.
Summary
SPS Commerce and Qualys tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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