BLKB vs. ACIW, SWI, SPNS, BB, MOMO, CRNC, TWOU, INFA, GWRE, and MANH
Should you be buying Blackbaud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blackbaud include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), SolarWinds (SWI), Sapiens International (SPNS), BlackBerry (BB), Hello Group (MOMO), Cerence (CRNC), 2U (TWOU), Informatica (INFA), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and Manhattan Associates (MANH). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Blackbaud had 9 more articles in the media than ACI Worldwide. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Blackbaud and 7 mentions for ACI Worldwide. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Blackbaud's score of 0.47 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.2% of Blackbaud shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Blackbaud shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Blackbaud presently has a consensus price target of $88.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.81%. ACI Worldwide has a consensus price target of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.42%. Given ACI Worldwide's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ACI Worldwide is more favorable than Blackbaud.
Blackbaud has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Blackbaud. ACI Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blackbaud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 9.88% compared to Blackbaud's net margin of 1.94%. ACI Worldwide's return on equity of 17.31% beat Blackbaud's return on equity.
Blackbaud received 71 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.33% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote while only 61.04% of users gave Blackbaud an outperform vote.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Blackbaud on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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