LSPD vs. AVPT, CLBT, NABL, MTTR, COUR, MLNK, AMPL, MQ, INST, and NYAX
Should you be buying Lightspeed Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightspeed Commerce include AvePoint (AVPT), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), N-able (NABL), Matterport (MTTR), Coursera (COUR), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), Marqeta (MQ), Instructure (INST), and Nayax (NYAX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) and AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its stock price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AvePoint has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AvePoint has a net margin of -4.91% compared to Lightspeed Commerce's net margin of -18.03%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of -2.01% beat AvePoint's return on equity.
In the previous week, Lightspeed Commerce had 33 more articles in the media than AvePoint. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce and 4 mentions for AvePoint. AvePoint's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Lightspeed Commerce's score of 0.53 indicating that AvePoint is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lightspeed Commerce received 73 more outperform votes than AvePoint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.05% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave AvePoint an outperform vote.
68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of AvePoint shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus target price of $18.56, suggesting a potential upside of 22.16%. AvePoint has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.28%. Given Lightspeed Commerce's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lightspeed Commerce is more favorable than AvePoint.
AvePoint has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lightspeed Commerce. AvePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightspeed Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lightspeed Commerce beats AvePoint on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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