APPF vs. U, MNDY, INFA, GTLB, PCTY, DBX, CDAY, DSGX, GWRE, and DAY
Should you be buying AppFolio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppFolio include Unity Software (U), monday.com (MNDY), Informatica (INFA), GitLab (GTLB), Paylocity (PCTY), Dropbox (DBX), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and Dayforce (DAY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Unity Software (NYSE:U) and AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
AppFolio has a net margin of 11.38% compared to AppFolio's net margin of -40.11%. Unity Software's return on equity of 13.51% beat AppFolio's return on equity.
73.5% of Unity Software shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of AppFolio shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Unity Software shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of AppFolio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Unity Software currently has a consensus target price of $35.38, suggesting a potential upside of 63.35%. AppFolio has a consensus target price of $241.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.17%. Given AppFolio's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Unity Software is more favorable than AppFolio.
AppFolio received 196 more outperform votes than Unity Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote while only 48.57% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote.
AppFolio has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unity Software. Unity Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppFolio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 7 more articles in the media than AppFolio. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Unity Software and 11 mentions for AppFolio. Unity Software's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat AppFolio's score of 0.22 indicating that AppFolio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unity Software has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AppFolio beats Unity Software on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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