COUR vs. MTTR, MLNK, AVPT, AMPL, NYAX, LSPD, MTC, MKTW, XPER, and CLBT
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include Matterport (MTTR), MeridianLink (MLNK), AvePoint (AVPT), Amplitude (AMPL), Nayax (NYAX), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), MMTec (MTC), MarketWise (MKTW), Xperi (XPER), and Cellebrite DI (CLBT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Matterport (NASDAQ:MTTR) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Coursera has higher revenue and earnings than Matterport. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Matterport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Matterport presently has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.22%. Coursera has a consensus target price of $16.85, indicating a potential upside of 98.47%. Given Matterport's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Coursera is more favorable than Matterport.
Matterport has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coursera has a net margin of -16.05% compared to Coursera's net margin of -113.62%. Matterport's return on equity of -16.03% beat Coursera's return on equity.
37.0% of Matterport shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of Matterport shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Coursera 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.
In the previous week, Coursera had 13 more articles in the media than Matterport. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Coursera and 3 mentions for Matterport. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Matterport's score of 0.33 indicating that Matterport is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Coursera received 64 more outperform votes than Matterport when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 44.07% of users gave Matterport an outperform vote.
Summary
Coursera beats Matterport on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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