IOT vs. GDDY, JKHY, OTEX, CACI, SAIC, UMC, TYL, ZM, ENTG, and MSTR
Should you be buying Samsara stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Samsara include GoDaddy (GDDY), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Open Text (OTEX), CACI International (CACI), Science Applications International (SAIC), United Microelectronics (UMC), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Entegris (ENTG), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Samsara (NYSE:IOT) and GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Samsara has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GoDaddy has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Samsara currently has a consensus target price of $32.60, suggesting a potential downside of 14.28%. GoDaddy has a consensus target price of $142.73, suggesting a potential upside of 15.44%. Given GoDaddy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GoDaddy is more favorable than Samsara.
In the previous week, GoDaddy had 29 more articles in the media than Samsara. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for GoDaddy and 13 mentions for Samsara. GoDaddy's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Samsara's score of 0.51 indicating that GoDaddy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GoDaddy has higher revenue and earnings than Samsara. Samsara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GoDaddy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GoDaddy received 858 more outperform votes than Samsara when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.02% of users gave GoDaddy an outperform vote while only 38.57% of users gave Samsara an outperform vote.
GoDaddy has a net margin of 40.38% compared to Samsara's net margin of -30.59%. Samsara's return on equity of -22.90% beat GoDaddy's return on equity.
89.4% of Samsara shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of GoDaddy shares are held by institutional investors. 66.1% of Samsara shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of GoDaddy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
GoDaddy beats Samsara on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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