SWI vs. SPNS, ACIW, PD, SEMR, EVCM, FSLY, BB, INTA, PRGS, and EVBG
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include Sapiens International (SPNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), PagerDuty (PD), Semrush (SEMR), EverCommerce (EVCM), Fastly (FSLY), BlackBerry (BB), Intapp (INTA), Progress Software (PRGS), and Everbridge (EVBG). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) and Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.
SolarWinds received 53 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 59.67% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.14% compared to SolarWinds' net margin of -1.20%. Sapiens International's return on equity of 16.92% beat SolarWinds' return on equity.
94.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.7% of Sapiens International shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sapiens International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SolarWinds. SolarWinds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sapiens International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sapiens International has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SolarWinds currently has a consensus price target of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.75%. Sapiens International has a consensus price target of $34.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.17%. Given SolarWinds' higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than Sapiens International.
In the previous week, Sapiens International had 4 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Sapiens International and 4 mentions for SolarWinds. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.67 indicating that Sapiens International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sapiens International beats SolarWinds on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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