INST vs. MQ, CXM, NABL, CLBT, ZETA, LSPD, AVPT, BRZE, MTTR, and COUR
Should you be buying Instructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Instructure include Marqeta (MQ), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Zeta Global (ZETA), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), AvePoint (AVPT), Braze (BRZE), Matterport (MTTR), and Coursera (COUR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and Instructure (NYSE:INST) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Instructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure received 335 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.11% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Instructure's net margin of -32.98%. Marqeta's return on equity of 7.29% beat Instructure's return on equity.
78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Instructure shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of Marqeta shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Instructure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Marqeta presently has a consensus target price of $7.43, indicating a potential upside of 32.03%. Instructure has a consensus target price of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 46.36%. Given Marqeta's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
In the previous week, Instructure had 4 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Instructure and 4 mentions for Marqeta. Instructure's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Marqeta's score of 0.57 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Instructure has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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