BB vs. EVCM, SPNS, FSLY, SEMR, PD, EVBG, SWI, ZUO, VTEX, and DCBO
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include EverCommerce (EVCM), Sapiens International (SPNS), Fastly (FSLY), Semrush (SEMR), PagerDuty (PD), Everbridge (EVBG), SolarWinds (SWI), Zuora (ZUO), VTEX (VTEX), and Docebo (DCBO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) and EverCommerce (NASDAQ:EVCM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
BlackBerry presently has a consensus price target of $4.08, indicating a potential upside of 35.66%. EverCommerce has a consensus price target of $11.13, indicating a potential upside of 14.10%. Given BlackBerry's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than EverCommerce.
54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of EverCommerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of EverCommerce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, BlackBerry and BlackBerry both had 4 articles in the media. EverCommerce's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.38 indicating that EverCommerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackBerry received 706 more outperform votes than EverCommerce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 52.86% of users gave EverCommerce an outperform vote.
BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EverCommerce has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
EverCommerce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BlackBerry. EverCommerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EverCommerce has a net margin of -6.75% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -15.24%. BlackBerry's return on equity of -0.24% beat EverCommerce's return on equity.
Summary
EverCommerce beats BlackBerry on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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