BILL vs. S, QLYS, ZI, TENB, FRSH, DSGX, SMAR, DBX, APPF, and VRNS
Should you be buying BILL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BILL include SentinelOne (S), Qualys (QLYS), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Tenable (TENB), Freshworks (FRSH), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Smartsheet (SMAR), Dropbox (DBX), AppFolio (APPF), and Varonis Systems (VRNS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BILL (NYSE:BILL) and SentinelOne (NYSE:S) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
BILL received 90 more outperform votes than SentinelOne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.13% of users gave BILL an outperform vote while only 35.47% of users gave SentinelOne an outperform vote.
BILL currently has a consensus target price of $97.35, indicating a potential upside of 71.75%. SentinelOne has a consensus target price of $26.08, indicating a potential upside of 23.44%. Given BILL's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BILL is more favorable than SentinelOne.
BILL has higher revenue and earnings than SentinelOne. BILL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SentinelOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.0% of BILL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of SentinelOne shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of BILL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of SentinelOne shares are held by company 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.
BILL has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SentinelOne has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BILL has a net margin of -4.21% compared to SentinelOne's net margin of -54.53%. BILL's return on equity of 0.98% beat SentinelOne's return on equity.
In the previous week, BILL had 86 more articles in the media than SentinelOne. MarketBeat recorded 104 mentions for BILL and 18 mentions for SentinelOne. SentinelOne's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat BILL's score of -0.01 indicating that SentinelOne is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BILL beats SentinelOne on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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