COUR vs. AVPT, MTTR, MLNK, AMPL, NYAX, LSPD, CLBT, NABL, MKTW, and XPER
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include AvePoint (AVPT), Matterport (MTTR), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), Nayax (NYAX), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), N-able (NABL), MarketWise (MKTW), and Xperi (XPER). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
AvePoint has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AvePoint has a net margin of -4.91% compared to AvePoint's net margin of -16.05%. Coursera's return on equity of -6.56% beat AvePoint's return on equity.
AvePoint currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.20%. Coursera has a consensus price target of $16.85, suggesting a potential upside of 90.83%. Given AvePoint's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Coursera is more favorable than AvePoint.
AvePoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Coursera. AvePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coursera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coursera received 74 more outperform votes than AvePoint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.94% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave AvePoint an outperform vote.
44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of AvePoint shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of Coursera shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, AvePoint had 6 more articles in the media than Coursera. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for AvePoint and 11 mentions for Coursera. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat AvePoint's score of 0.43 indicating that AvePoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
AvePoint beats Coursera on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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