TRUE vs. VNET, SIFY, SANG, JG, CEVA, EB, SMWB, BLND, YALA, and HSTM
Should you be buying TrueCar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TrueCar include VNET Group (VNET), Sify Technologies (SIFY), Sangoma Technologies (SANG), Aurora Mobile (JG), CEVA (CEVA), Eventbrite (EB), Similarweb (SMWB), Blend Labs (BLND), Yalla Group (YALA), and HealthStream (HSTM). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
VNET Group (NASDAQ:VNET) and TrueCar (NASDAQ:TRUE) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
TrueCar has lower revenue, but higher earnings than VNET Group. TrueCar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VNET Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VNET Group currently has a consensus target price of $2.85, suggesting a potential upside of 49.21%. TrueCar has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.81%. Given TrueCar's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe VNET Group is more favorable than TrueCar.
72.8% of VNET Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.4% of TrueCar shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.1% of VNET Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of TrueCar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
VNET Group has a beta of -0.31, indicating that its stock price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TrueCar has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
TrueCar received 205 more outperform votes than VNET Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.69% of users gave TrueCar an outperform vote while only 57.80% of users gave VNET Group an outperform vote.
TrueCar has a net margin of -22.15% compared to TrueCar's net margin of -35.68%. TrueCar's return on equity of -11.15% beat VNET Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, TrueCar had 24 more articles in the media than VNET Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for TrueCar and 2 mentions for VNET Group. VNET Group's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat TrueCar's score of -0.23 indicating that TrueCar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
TrueCar beats VNET Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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