BLKB vs. ACIW, SWI, SPNS, MOMO, CRNC, TWOU, INFA, GWRE, MANH, and SSNC
Should you be buying Blackbaud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackbaud include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), SolarWinds (SWI), Sapiens International (SPNS), Hello Group (MOMO), Cerence (CRNC), 2U (TWOU), Informatica (INFA), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Manhattan Associates (MANH), and SS&C Technologies (SSNC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) and Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Blackbaud received 71 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote while only 61.04% of users gave Blackbaud an outperform vote.
ACI Worldwide presently has a consensus target price of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.67%. Blackbaud has a consensus target price of $88.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.97%. Given ACI Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blackbaud is more favorable than ACI Worldwide.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Blackbaud. ACI Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackbaud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 9.88% compared to ACI Worldwide's net margin of 1.94%. Blackbaud's return on equity of 17.31% beat ACI Worldwide's return on equity.
94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.2% of Blackbaud shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Blackbaud shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blackbaud has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 3 more articles in the media than Blackbaud. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 5 mentions for Blackbaud. Blackbaud's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat ACI Worldwide's score of 0.20 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Blackbaud on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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