SLP vs. TLS, NXGN, AUR, AGYS, VRNT, IONQ, NTCT, MDRX, TDCX, and DMRC
Should you be buying Simulations Plus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Simulations Plus include Telos (TLS), NextGen Healthcare (NXGN), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Agilysys (AGYS), Verint Systems (VRNT), IonQ (IONQ), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Veradigm (MDRX), TDCX (TDCX), and Digimarc (DMRC).
Telos (NASDAQ:TLS) and Simulations Plus (NASDAQ:SLP) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
62.1% of Telos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Simulations Plus shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of Telos shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of Simulations Plus 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.
Telos presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.00%. Simulations Plus has a consensus price target of $51.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.18%. Given Simulations Plus' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Telos is more favorable than Simulations Plus.
Simulations Plus received 222 more outperform votes than Telos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.94% of users gave Telos an outperform vote while only 62.82% of users gave Simulations Plus an outperform vote.
Simulations Plus has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Telos. Telos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Simulations Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Telos had 4 more articles in the media than Simulations Plus. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Telos and 0 mentions for Simulations Plus. Simulations Plus' average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Telos' score of 0.00 indicating that Telos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Simulations Plus has a net margin of 16.22% compared to Simulations Plus' net margin of -22.22%. Telos' return on equity of 7.95% beat Simulations Plus' return on equity.
Telos has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Simulations Plus has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Simulations Plus beats Telos on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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