INST vs. MQ, ZETA, NABL, CLBT, CXM, LSPD, BRZE, COUR, AVPT, and MTTR
Should you be buying Instructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Instructure include Marqeta (MQ), Zeta Global (ZETA), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Sprinklr (CXM), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Braze (BRZE), Coursera (COUR), AvePoint (AVPT), and Matterport (MTTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, Marqeta had 14 more articles in the media than Instructure. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Marqeta and 16 mentions for Instructure. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Instructure's score of 0.34 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -32.98%. Instructure's return on equity of 7.29% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
Instructure received 334 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Instructure has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure presently has a consensus target price of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 47.52%. Marqeta has a consensus target price of $7.43, indicating a potential upside of 29.95%. Given Instructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
97.1% of Instructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Instructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Marqeta shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Instructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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