AGYS vs. SYKE, NXGN, NTCT, SLP, DMRC, ARW, NSIT, CNXN, SCSC, and RELL
Should you be buying Agilysys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agilysys include Sykes Enterprises (SYKE), NextGen Healthcare (NXGN), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Simulations Plus (SLP), Digimarc (DMRC), Arrow Electronics (ARW), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), PC Connection (CNXN), ScanSource (SCSC), and Richardson Electronics (RELL).
Agilysys (NASDAQ:AGYS) and Sykes Enterprises (NASDAQ:SYKE) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Agilysys has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sykes Enterprises. Sykes Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilysys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agilysys has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sykes Enterprises has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Agilysys currently has a consensus price target of $103.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.93%. Given Agilysys' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Agilysys is more favorable than Sykes Enterprises.
Sykes Enterprises received 2 more outperform votes than Agilysys when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.81% of users gave Sykes Enterprises an outperform vote while only 62.92% of users gave Agilysys an outperform vote.
Agilysys has a net margin of 36.30% compared to Sykes Enterprises' net margin of 3.83%. Agilysys' return on equity of 15.52% beat Sykes Enterprises' return on equity.
88.0% of Agilysys shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Sykes Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 23.6% of Agilysys shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Sykes Enterprises shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Agilysys had 17 more articles in the media than Sykes Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Agilysys and 0 mentions for Sykes Enterprises. Agilysys' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Sykes Enterprises' score of -0.20 indicating that Agilysys is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Agilysys beats Sykes Enterprises on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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