STN vs. CART, CFLT, PCOR, COHR, APG, WEX, AFRM, FCN, ESTC, and DUOL
Should you be buying Stantec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stantec include Maplebear (CART), Confluent (CFLT), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Coherent (COHR), APi Group (APG), WEX (WEX), Affirm (AFRM), FTI Consulting (FCN), Elastic (ESTC), and Duolingo (DUOL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) and Stantec (NYSE:STN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Stantec received 370 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.91% of users gave Stantec an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
63.1% of Maplebear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Stantec shares are held by institutional investors. 36.0% of Maplebear shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Stantec shares are held by company 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.
Stantec has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Stantec's net margin of 0.00%. Maplebear's return on equity of 16.51% beat Stantec's return on equity.
Maplebear presently has a consensus price target of $41.05, suggesting a potential upside of 19.20%. Stantec has a consensus price target of $105.00, suggesting a potential upside of 31.68%. Given Maplebear's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Stantec is more favorable than Maplebear.
In the previous week, Maplebear had 1 more articles in the media than Stantec. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Maplebear and 15 mentions for Stantec. Stantec's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Maplebear's score of 0.21 indicating that Maplebear is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Stantec has higher revenue and earnings than Maplebear.
Summary
Stantec beats Maplebear on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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