DUOL vs. SPSC, CFLT, YMM, PCOR, ESTC, BRZE, PATH, ZETA, CXM, and DOCU
Should you be buying Duolingo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duolingo include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Confluent (CFLT), Full Truck Alliance (YMM), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), Braze (BRZE), UiPath (PATH), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends and valuation.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duolingo has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SPS Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 4.18%. Duolingo has a consensus price target of $246.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.90%. Given SPS Commerce's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than SPS Commerce.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 6 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Duolingo and 14 mentions for SPS Commerce. Duolingo's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat SPS Commerce's score of 0.89 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SPS Commerce has higher revenue and earnings than Duolingo. SPS Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Duolingo shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Duolingo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 7.82%. Duolingo's return on equity of 12.06% beat SPS Commerce's return on equity.
SPS Commerce received 595 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 41.98% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats Duolingo on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DUOL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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