CDAY vs. APPF, MNDY, INFA, DAY, PCTY, GWRE, GTLB, U, DSGX, and CYBR
Should you be buying Ceridian HCM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceridian HCM include AppFolio (APPF), monday.com (MNDY), Informatica (INFA), Dayforce (DAY), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), GitLab (GTLB), Unity Software (U), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and CyberArk Software (CYBR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) and AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AppFolio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ceridian HCM. AppFolio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ceridian HCM received 20 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AppFolio had 6 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for AppFolio and 1 mentions for Ceridian HCM. Ceridian HCM's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat AppFolio's score of 1.55 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ceridian HCM presently has a consensus target price of $76.80, indicating a potential upside of 29.84%. AppFolio has a consensus target price of $241.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.35%. Given Ceridian HCM's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than AppFolio.
AppFolio has a net margin of 11.38% compared to Ceridian HCM's net margin of 0.28%. AppFolio's return on equity of 13.51% beat Ceridian HCM's return on equity.
62.3% of AppFolio shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of AppFolio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AppFolio beats Ceridian HCM on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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