NICE vs. BKI, AVLR, CDAY, FIVN, NUAN, SQ, DDOG, EA, HUBS, and MSTR
Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Black Knight (BKI), Avalara (AVLR), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Five9 (FIVN), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Block (SQ), Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), HubSpot (HUBS), and MicroStrategy (MSTR).
NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) and Black Knight (NYSE:BKI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
NICE has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Knight has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NICE received 261 more outperform votes than Black Knight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.02% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Black Knight an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NICE had 15 more articles in the media than Black Knight. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for NICE and 0 mentions for Black Knight. NICE's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Black Knight's score of 0.00 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.3% of NICE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Black Knight shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of NICE shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Black Knight shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Black Knight has a net margin of 16.09% compared to NICE's net margin of 14.92%. NICE's return on equity of 14.05% beat Black Knight's return on equity.
NICE currently has a consensus target price of $285.92, indicating a potential upside of 69.44%. Black Knight has a consensus target price of $75.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.00%. Given NICE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe NICE is more favorable than Black Knight.
Black Knight has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NICE. NICE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Knight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NICE beats Black Knight on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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