FSLY vs. OPRA, PDFS, ENFN, BASE, TUYA, DCBO, EVBG, MOMO, VTEX, and GDYN
Should you be buying Fastly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fastly include Opera (OPRA), PDF Solutions (PDFS), Enfusion (ENFN), Couchbase (BASE), Tuya (TUYA), Docebo (DCBO), Everbridge (EVBG), Hello Group (MOMO), VTEX (VTEX), and Grid Dynamics (GDYN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Opera (NASDAQ:OPRA) and Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Fastly received 15 more outperform votes than Opera when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.73% of users gave Opera an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
Opera has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fastly. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Opera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Opera has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Opera presently has a consensus price target of $21.17, indicating a potential upside of 53.72%. Fastly has a consensus price target of $14.61, indicating a potential upside of 69.31%. Given Opera's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fastly is more favorable than Opera.
10.2% of Opera shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. 84.4% of Opera shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Fastly 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.
Opera has a net margin of 41.00% compared to Opera's net margin of -25.26%. Fastly's return on equity of 19.52% beat Opera's return on equity.
In the previous week, Opera had 18 more articles in the media than Fastly. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Opera and 10 mentions for Fastly. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Opera's score of -0.31 indicating that Opera is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Opera beats Fastly on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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