BRZE vs. LSPD, TV, LAZR, KT, OKTA, BSY, DT, MANH, NTNX, and ESTC
Should you be buying Braze stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Braze include Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (TV), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), KT (KT), Okta (OKTA), Bentley Systems (BSY), Dynatrace (DT), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Nutanix (NTNX), and Elastic (ESTC).
Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE) and Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Lightspeed Commerce received 12 more outperform votes than Braze when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.90% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave Braze an outperform vote.
Lightspeed Commerce has a net margin of -18.03% compared to Braze's net margin of -27.44%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of -2.02% beat Braze's return on equity.
Braze has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Braze currently has a consensus price target of $59.94, suggesting a potential upside of 63.55%. Lightspeed Commerce has a consensus price target of $18.78, suggesting a potential upside of 27.44%. Given Braze's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Braze is more favorable than Lightspeed Commerce.
In the previous week, Braze had 31 more articles in the media than Lightspeed Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Braze and 3 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Braze's score of 0.31 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
90.5% of Braze shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.0% of Braze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Braze has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lightspeed Commerce. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightspeed Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lightspeed Commerce beats Braze on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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