MIXT vs. AMSWA, CTV, PRCH, BLZE, MTLS, CRNC, BBAI, DOMO, ONTF, and CCSI
Should you be buying MiX Telematics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MiX Telematics include American Software (AMSWA), Innovid (CTV), Porch Group (PRCH), Backblaze (BLZE), Materialise (MTLS), Cerence (CRNC), BigBear.ai (BBAI), Domo (DOMO), ON24 (ONTF), and Consensus Cloud Solutions (CCSI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
MiX Telematics (NYSE:MIXT) and American Software (NASDAQ:AMSWA) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
American Software has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MiX Telematics. American Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MiX Telematics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, American Software had 2 more articles in the media than MiX Telematics. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for American Software and 2 mentions for MiX Telematics. American Software's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat MiX Telematics' score of 0.29 indicating that American Software is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MiX Telematics presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 17.53%. American Software has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 76.30%. Given American Software's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe American Software is more favorable than MiX Telematics.
45.7% of MiX Telematics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of American Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of MiX Telematics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.4% of American Software shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
American Software has a net margin of 10.94% compared to MiX Telematics' net margin of 3.72%. American Software's return on equity of 9.14% beat MiX Telematics' return on equity.
American Software received 10 more outperform votes than MiX Telematics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.48% of users gave MiX Telematics an outperform vote while only 69.47% of users gave American Software an outperform vote.
MiX Telematics pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. American Software pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. MiX Telematics pays out 72.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Software pays out 125.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
MiX Telematics has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Software has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
American Software beats MiX Telematics on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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