AMSWA vs. BNFT, MGIC, CYOU, DMRC, SNCR, WIMI, VHC, SEAC, ECOM, and CRM
Should you be buying American Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Software include Benefitfocus (BNFT), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), Changyou.Com (CYOU), Digimarc (DMRC), Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), VirnetX (VHC), SeaChange International (SEAC), ChannelAdvisor (ECOM), and Salesforce (CRM).
American Software (NASDAQ:AMSWA) and Benefitfocus (NASDAQ:BNFT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
American Software has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Benefitfocus. Benefitfocus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
77.0% of American Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Benefitfocus shares are held by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Software shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Benefitfocus shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Software has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Benefitfocus has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Software has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Benefitfocus' net margin of -7.40%. American Software's return on equity of 9.14% beat Benefitfocus' return on equity.
In the previous week, American Software had 11 more articles in the media than Benefitfocus. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for American Software and 0 mentions for Benefitfocus. American Software's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Benefitfocus' score of 0.10 indicating that American Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Benefitfocus received 35 more outperform votes than American Software when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.52% of users gave American Software an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Benefitfocus an outperform vote.
American Software currently has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 84.58%. Given American Software's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe American Software is more favorable than Benefitfocus.
Summary
American Software beats Benefitfocus on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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