KC vs. GDYN, MOMO, WKME, TUYA, WEAV, MGIC, BAND, CGNT, SCWX, and DDD
Should you be buying Kingsoft Cloud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingsoft Cloud include Grid Dynamics (GDYN), Hello Group (MOMO), WalkMe (WKME), Tuya (TUYA), Weave Communications (WEAV), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), Bandwidth (BAND), Cognyte Software (CGNT), SecureWorks (SCWX), and 3D Systems (DDD). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ:GDYN) and Kingsoft Cloud (NASDAQ:KC) 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 analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Grid Dynamics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kingsoft Cloud. Kingsoft Cloud is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grid Dynamics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kingsoft Cloud had 5 more articles in the media than Grid Dynamics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Kingsoft Cloud and 0 mentions for Grid Dynamics. Grid Dynamics' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Kingsoft Cloud's score of 0.00 indicating that Kingsoft Cloud is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Grid Dynamics has a net margin of 0.72% compared to Grid Dynamics' net margin of -30.81%. Kingsoft Cloud's return on equity of 3.31% beat Grid Dynamics' return on equity.
Grid Dynamics received 44 more outperform votes than Kingsoft Cloud when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.24% of users gave Grid Dynamics an outperform vote while only 40.54% of users gave Kingsoft Cloud an outperform vote.
Grid Dynamics currently has a consensus price target of $15.75, indicating a potential upside of 54.11%. Kingsoft Cloud has a consensus price target of $4.55, indicating a potential upside of 26.39%. Given Kingsoft Cloud's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Grid Dynamics is more favorable than Kingsoft Cloud.
71.2% of Grid Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Grid Dynamics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Grid Dynamics has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Kingsoft Cloud has a beta of 2.07, suggesting that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Grid Dynamics beats Kingsoft Cloud on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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