SOUN vs. SPT, ZUO, EVBG, SPNS, EVCM, VTEX, BASE, PDFS, PD, and SWI
Should you be buying SoundHound AI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundHound AI include Sprout Social (SPT), Zuora (ZUO), Everbridge (EVBG), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), VTEX (VTEX), Couchbase (BASE), PDF Solutions (PDFS), PagerDuty (PD), and SolarWinds (SWI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) and SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Sprout Social has higher revenue and earnings than SoundHound AI. Sprout Social is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SoundHound AI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sprout Social presently has a consensus target price of $57.07, suggesting a potential upside of 79.41%. SoundHound AI has a consensus target price of $6.88, suggesting a potential upside of 25.55%. Given SoundHound AI's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sprout Social is more favorable than SoundHound AI.
Sprout Social has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundHound AI has a beta of 2.87, indicating that its share price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprout Social received 65 more outperform votes than SoundHound AI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.77% of users gave Sprout Social an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave SoundHound AI an outperform vote.
19.3% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Sprout Social shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 21.3% of SoundHound AI shares are owned by 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.
Sprout Social has a net margin of -19.64% compared to Sprout Social's net margin of -183.49%. SoundHound AI's return on equity of -42.51% beat Sprout Social's return on equity.
In the previous week, SoundHound AI had 6 more articles in the media than Sprout Social. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for SoundHound AI and 28 mentions for Sprout Social. Sprout Social's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat SoundHound AI's score of 0.10 indicating that SoundHound AI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sprout Social and SoundHound AI tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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