STNE vs. PEGA, BILI, CLVT, FIVN, DXC, ATHM, RNG, RDDT, GLOB, and YY
Should you be buying StoneCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StoneCo include Pegasystems (PEGA), Bilibili (BILI), Clarivate (CLVT), Five9 (FIVN), DXC Technology (DXC), Autohome (ATHM), RingCentral (RNG), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), and JOYY (YY). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) and Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.
StoneCo currently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.77%. Pegasystems has a consensus target price of $72.33, indicating a potential upside of 18.52%. Given Pegasystems' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Pegasystems is more favorable than StoneCo.
StoneCo has higher revenue and earnings than Pegasystems. StoneCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pegasystems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
StoneCo has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Pegasystems' net margin of 5.32%. Pegasystems' return on equity of 45.00% beat StoneCo's return on equity.
StoneCo has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pegasystems has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pegasystems had 5 more articles in the media than StoneCo. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pegasystems and 3 mentions for StoneCo. Pegasystems' average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat StoneCo's score of 0.77 indicating that Pegasystems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.2% of StoneCo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Pegasystems shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of StoneCo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 50.2% of Pegasystems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pegasystems received 281 more outperform votes than StoneCo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.59% of users gave Pegasystems an outperform vote while only 56.63% of users gave StoneCo an outperform vote.
Summary
Pegasystems beats StoneCo on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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