BAND vs. LPSN, JAMF, APPN, SWI, SPT, PD, SPNS, EVCM, AVPT, and BB
Should you be buying Bandwidth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bandwidth include LivePerson (LPSN), Jamf (JAMF), Appian (APPN), SolarWinds (SWI), Sprout Social (SPT), PagerDuty (PD), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), AvePoint (AVPT), and BlackBerry (BB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) and LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Bandwidth has a net margin of -4.60% compared to LivePerson's net margin of -31.27%. Bandwidth's return on equity of -2.49% beat LivePerson's return on equity.
Bandwidth presently has a consensus target price of $25.38, suggesting a potential upside of 29.60%. LivePerson has a consensus target price of $1.38, suggesting a potential upside of 113.05%. Given LivePerson's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LivePerson is more favorable than Bandwidth.
68.5% of Bandwidth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of LivePerson shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Bandwidth shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of LivePerson shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bandwidth has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LivePerson has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bandwidth had 6 more articles in the media than LivePerson. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bandwidth and 3 mentions for LivePerson. Bandwidth's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat LivePerson's score of -0.10 indicating that Bandwidth is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bandwidth has higher revenue and earnings than LivePerson. Bandwidth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LivePerson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LivePerson received 59 more outperform votes than Bandwidth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.69% of users gave Bandwidth an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave LivePerson an outperform vote.
Summary
Bandwidth beats LivePerson on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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