U vs. DAY, PCTY, CDAY, GWRE, APPF, INFA, CYBR, MNDY, PAYC, and GTLB
Should you be buying Unity Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Software include Dayforce (DAY), Paylocity (PCTY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), AppFolio (APPF), Informatica (INFA), CyberArk Software (CYBR), monday.com (MNDY), Paycom Software (PAYC), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Dayforce (NYSE:DAY) and Unity Software (NYSE:U) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 9 more articles in the media than Dayforce. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Unity Software and 7 mentions for Dayforce. Dayforce's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Unity Software's score of 0.13 indicating that Unity Software is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dayforce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unity Software. Unity Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dayforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dayforce has a net margin of 3.30% compared to Dayforce's net margin of -40.11%. Unity Software's return on equity of 5.38% beat Dayforce's return on equity.
Dayforce has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Software has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
73.5% of Unity Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Dayforce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Unity Software shares are owned 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.
Dayforce presently has a consensus price target of $72.50, indicating a potential upside of 14.48%. Unity Software has a consensus price target of $35.38, indicating a potential upside of 63.28%. Given Dayforce's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Dayforce.
Unity Software received 80 more outperform votes than Dayforce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.57% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave Dayforce an outperform vote.
Summary
Unity Software beats Dayforce on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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