BOX vs. ACIW, QTWO, BL, NCNO, BLKB, ASAN, FROG, FRSH, CWAN, and SVFCX
Should you be buying BOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOX include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Q2 (QTWO), BlackLine (BL), nCino (NCNO), Blackbaud (BLKB), Asana (ASAN), JFrog (FROG), Freshworks (FRSH), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), and Smead Value C (SVFCX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
BOX (NYSE:BOX) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
BOX received 478 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
BOX currently has a consensus price target of $30.89, suggesting a potential upside of 15.47%. ACI Worldwide has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.67%. Given BOX's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than ACI Worldwide.
BOX has a net margin of 12.43% compared to ACI Worldwide's net margin of 9.88%. ACI Worldwide's return on equity of 17.31% beat BOX's return on equity.
BOX has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 2 more articles in the media than BOX. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 6 mentions for BOX. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat BOX's score of 0.82 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of BOX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BOX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ACI Worldwide. ACI Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BOX and ACI Worldwide tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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