AFRM vs. ESTC, PATH, APG, WPP, PCOR, CLH, CFLT, CART, DOCU, and IPG
Should you be buying Affirm stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affirm include Elastic (ESTC), UiPath (PATH), APi Group (APG), WPP (WPP), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Clean Harbors (CLH), Confluent (CFLT), Maplebear (CART), DocuSign (DOCU), and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
69.3% of Affirm shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of Affirm shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Elastic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Elastic had 6 more articles in the media than Affirm. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Elastic and 5 mentions for Affirm. Elastic's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Affirm's score of 0.02 indicating that Elastic is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Affirm has a beta of 3.56, meaning that its share price is 256% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Elastic received 233 more outperform votes than Affirm when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.45% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote while only 33.50% of users gave Affirm an outperform vote.
Elastic has a net margin of 4.63% compared to Affirm's net margin of -32.17%. Affirm's return on equity of -22.06% beat Elastic's return on equity.
Elastic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Affirm. Affirm is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Affirm presently has a consensus target price of $27.53, indicating a potential downside of 18.63%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $111.26, indicating a potential upside of 1.07%. Given Elastic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Elastic is more favorable than Affirm.
Summary
Elastic beats Affirm on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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