Open Text (OTEX) Competitors

SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in SPSC or OTEX?

99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Open Text shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.6% of Open Text shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer SPSC or OTEX?

SPS Commerce presently has a consensus target price of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.05%. Open Text has a consensus target price of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 52.53%. Given SPS Commerce's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Open Text is more favorable than SPS Commerce.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SPS Commerce	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75
Open Text	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.45

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SPSC or OTEX?

SPS Commerce received 58 more outperform votes than Open Text when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 67.57% of users gave Open Text an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
SPS Commerce	Outperform Votes 629 73.83%	Underperform Votes 223 26.17%
Open Text	Outperform Votes 571 67.57%	Underperform Votes 274 32.43%

Which has more risk & volatility, SPSC or OTEX?

SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Open Text has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, SPSC or OTEX?

Open Text has higher revenue and earnings than SPS Commerce. Open Text is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SPS Commerce	$536.91M	12.66	$65.82M	$1.83	100.34
Open Text	$4.48B	1.69	$150.38M	$0.62	44.68

Does the media prefer SPSC or OTEX?

In the previous week, Open Text had 1 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Open Text and 5 mentions for SPS Commerce. Open Text's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat SPS Commerce's score of 0.75 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
SPS Commerce	4 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Open Text	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is SPSC or OTEX more profitable?

SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 2.85%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 24.45% beat Open Text's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SPS Commerce	12.23%	12.06%	9.76%
Open Text	2.85%	24.45%	5.96%

Summary

SPS Commerce beats Open Text on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.