U vs. GWRE, PAYC, MNDY, CYBR, CDAY, DAY, INFA, GTLB, APPF, and PCTY
Should you be buying Unity Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Software include Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paycom Software (PAYC), monday.com (MNDY), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), Informatica (INFA), GitLab (GTLB), AppFolio (APPF), and Paylocity (PCTY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) and Unity Software (NYSE:U) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 15 more articles in the media than Guidewire Software. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Unity Software and 7 mentions for Guidewire Software. Unity Software's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Guidewire Software's score of 0.63 indicating that Guidewire Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guidewire Software has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Software has a beta of 2.4, suggesting that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guidewire Software currently has a consensus target price of $115.11, suggesting a potential downside of 1.67%. Unity Software has a consensus target price of $37.03, suggesting a potential upside of 53.28%. Given Guidewire Software's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Guidewire Software.
Guidewire Software received 323 more outperform votes than Unity Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.74% of users gave Guidewire Software an outperform vote while only 49.11% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote.
Guidewire Software has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unity Software. Guidewire Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unity Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Guidewire Software has a net margin of -5.48% compared to Guidewire Software's net margin of -37.64%. Unity Software's return on equity of -3.60% beat Guidewire Software's return on equity.
73.5% of Unity Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Guidewire Software shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Unity Software 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.
Summary
Guidewire Software beats Unity Software on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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