UDMY vs. CHGG, PRO, CTS, ZUO, KN, SOUN, PAR, SPT, ACMR, and DBD
Should you be buying Udemy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Udemy include Chegg (CHGG), PROS (PRO), CTS (CTS), Zuora (ZUO), Knowles (KN), SoundHound AI (SOUN), PAR Technology (PAR), Sprout Social (SPT), ACM Research (ACMR), and Diebold Nixdorf (DBD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Udemy (NASDAQ:UDMY) and Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Udemy has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chegg has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chegg has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Udemy. Chegg is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Udemy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
79.5% of Udemy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.2% of Chegg shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Udemy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of Chegg shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Udemy had 3 more articles in the media than Chegg. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Udemy and 9 mentions for Chegg. Chegg's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Udemy's score of 0.29 indicating that Chegg is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Udemy presently has a consensus target price of $13.90, suggesting a potential upside of 39.84%. Chegg has a consensus target price of $7.31, suggesting a potential upside of 66.95%. Given Chegg's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chegg is more favorable than Udemy.
Chegg has a net margin of 2.07% compared to Udemy's net margin of -10.82%. Chegg's return on equity of 0.87% beat Udemy's return on equity.
Chegg received 758 more outperform votes than Udemy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.72% of users gave Chegg an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Udemy an outperform vote.
Summary
Chegg beats Udemy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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