ASAN vs. NCNO, SVFCX, BL, PYCR, ACIW, TDC, QTWO, BOX, SPT, and CWAN
Should you be buying Asana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asana include nCino (NCNO), Smead Value C (SVFCX), BlackLine (BL), Paycor HCM (PYCR), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Teradata (TDC), Q2 (QTWO), BOX (BOX), Sprout Social (SPT), and Clearwater Analytics (CWAN). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
nCino (NASDAQ:NCNO) and Asana (NYSE:ASAN) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Asana received 10 more outperform votes than nCino when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 49.58% of users gave nCino an outperform vote while only 43.40% of users gave Asana an outperform vote.
nCino has a net margin of -8.89% compared to nCino's net margin of -39.39%. Asana's return on equity of 0.31% beat nCino's return on equity.
nCino currently has a consensus price target of $35.91, indicating a potential upside of 15.61%. Asana has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 37.23%. Given nCino's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Asana is more favorable than nCino.
In the previous week, nCino had 12 more articles in the media than Asana. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for nCino and 5 mentions for Asana. nCino's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Asana's score of 0.20 indicating that Asana is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.8% of nCino shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.2% of Asana shares are held by institutional investors. 38.2% of nCino shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 63.3% of Asana shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
nCino has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asana has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
nCino has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Asana. nCino is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
nCino beats Asana on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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