APPN vs. FSLY, KC, PEGA, BILL, PCTY, DSGX, DAY, CDAY, GTLB, and DBX
Should you be buying Appian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Appian include Fastly (FSLY), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Pegasystems (PEGA), BILL (BILL), Paylocity (PCTY), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Dayforce (DAY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), GitLab (GTLB), and Dropbox (DBX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) and Appian (NASDAQ:APPN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Appian has higher revenue and earnings than Fastly. Appian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fastly, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Appian has a net margin of -19.20% compared to Appian's net margin of -25.26%. Appian's return on equity of -15.82% beat Fastly's return on equity.
Appian received 215 more outperform votes than Fastly when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.66% of users gave Appian an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fastly had 18 more articles in the media than Appian. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Fastly and 8 mentions for Appian. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Appian's score of 0.03 indicating that Appian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fastly currently has a consensus target price of $14.61, suggesting a potential upside of 95.60%. Appian has a consensus target price of $46.43, suggesting a potential upside of 69.08%. Given Appian's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Fastly is more favorable than Appian.
79.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.7% of Appian shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Fastly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of Appian shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Fastly has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Appian has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Appian beats Fastly on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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