BB vs. SPNS, EVCM, ZUO, SOUN, SPT, VTEX, PD, EVBG, SWI, and DCBO
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), Zuora (ZUO), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Sprout Social (SPT), VTEX (VTEX), PagerDuty (PD), Everbridge (EVBG), SolarWinds (SWI), and Docebo (DCBO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Sapiens International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BlackBerry. BlackBerry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sapiens International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of -15.24%. BlackBerry's return on equity of 16.92% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
Sapiens International presently has a consensus target price of $35.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.43%. BlackBerry has a consensus target price of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 36.34%. Given Sapiens International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than Sapiens International.
In the previous week, Sapiens International had 16 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Sapiens International and 1 mentions for BlackBerry. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.37 indicating that BlackBerry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are owned by 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.
BlackBerry received 437 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 65.95% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote.
Summary
Sapiens International beats BlackBerry on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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