NTWK vs. TWOU, MRDB, SMSI, CLPS, DTSS, MTBLY, AWRE, SEAC, BLIN, and IVDA
Should you be buying NetSol Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NetSol Technologies include 2U (TWOU), MariaDB (MRDB), Smith Micro Software (SMSI), CLPS Incorporation (CLPS), Datasea (DTSS), Moatable (MTBLY), Aware (AWRE), SeaChange International (SEAC), Bridgeline Digital (BLIN), and Iveda Solutions (IVDA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
NetSol Technologies (NASDAQ:NTWK) and 2U (NASDAQ:TWOU) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
2U has a consensus price target of $4.31, indicating a potential upside of 1,167.60%. Given 2U's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe 2U is more favorable than NetSol Technologies.
NetSol Technologies has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 2U has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NetSol Technologies has a net margin of -3.68% compared to 2U's net margin of -35.13%. NetSol Technologies' return on equity of -5.47% beat 2U's return on equity.
2U received 377 more outperform votes than NetSol Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.68% of users gave 2U an outperform vote while only 66.58% of users gave NetSol Technologies an outperform vote.
NetSol Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than 2U. NetSol Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 2U, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, 2U had 4 more articles in the media than NetSol Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for 2U and 2 mentions for NetSol Technologies. 2U's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat NetSol Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that 2U is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.0% of NetSol Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of 2U shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of NetSol Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of 2U shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
2U beats NetSol Technologies on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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