ACIW vs. VRNS, TENB, RPD, VERX, SAIL, MANH, AZPN, GWRE, INFA, and HCP
Should you be buying ACI Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ACI Worldwide include Varonis Systems (VRNS), Tenable (TENB), Rapid7 (RPD), Vertex (VERX), SailPoint Technologies (SAIL), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Aspen Technology (AZPN), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Informatica (INFA), and HashiCorp (HCP).
Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Varonis Systems currently has a consensus price target of $49.06, suggesting a potential upside of 15.82%. ACI Worldwide has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.58%. Given ACI Worldwide's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Varonis Systems is more favorable than ACI Worldwide.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 9.88% compared to ACI Worldwide's net margin of -20.38%. Varonis Systems' return on equity of 17.31% beat ACI Worldwide's return on equity.
Varonis Systems received 550 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave Varonis Systems an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
Varonis Systems has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.7% of Varonis Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Varonis Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Varonis Systems. Varonis Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACI Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 4 more articles in the media than Varonis Systems. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 5 mentions for Varonis Systems. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Varonis Systems' score of 0.70 indicating that Varonis Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Varonis Systems on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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