CERT vs. ESTC, PCOR, TWLO, GWRE, CYBR, CFLT, PAYC, INFA, CDAY, and DUOL
Should you be buying Certara stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Certara include Elastic (ESTC), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Twilio (TWLO), Guidewire Software (GWRE), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Confluent (CFLT), Paycom Software (PAYC), Informatica (INFA), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), and Duolingo (DUOL). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Certara (NASDAQ:CERT) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Certara has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Elastic had 27 more articles in the media than Certara. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Elastic and 7 mentions for Certara. Certara's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Elastic's score of 0.11 indicating that Certara is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Certara has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Elastic. Certara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Elastic has a net margin of 4.87% compared to Certara's net margin of -17.02%. Certara's return on equity of 4.08% beat Elastic's return on equity.
74.0% of Certara shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Certara shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Elastic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Certara currently has a consensus target price of $20.06, indicating a potential upside of 18.36%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $118.55, indicating a potential upside of 13.94%. Given Certara's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Certara is more favorable than Elastic.
Elastic received 286 more outperform votes than Certara when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote while only 34.92% of users gave Certara an outperform vote.
Summary
Elastic beats Certara on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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