SOUN vs. SPT, BB, SPNS, PD, EVCM, SWI, ZUO, EVBG, BASE, and PRGS
Should you be buying SoundHound AI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundHound AI include Sprout Social (SPT), BlackBerry (BB), Sapiens International (SPNS), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), SolarWinds (SWI), Zuora (ZUO), Everbridge (EVBG), Couchbase (BASE), and Progress Software (PRGS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) and SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Sprout Social currently has a consensus price target of $57.07, indicating a potential upside of 75.71%. SoundHound AI has a consensus price target of $6.88, indicating a potential upside of 37.33%. Given SoundHound AI's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sprout Social is more favorable than SoundHound AI.
Sprout Social has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundHound AI has a beta of 2.87, indicating that its share price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprout Social has a net margin of -19.64% compared to Sprout Social's net margin of -183.49%. SoundHound AI's return on equity of -42.51% beat Sprout Social's return on equity.
In the previous week, Sprout Social had 7 more articles in the media than SoundHound AI. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Sprout Social and 26 mentions for SoundHound AI. Sprout Social's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat SoundHound AI's score of 0.14 indicating that SoundHound AI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sprout Social has higher revenue and earnings than SoundHound AI. Sprout Social is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SoundHound AI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.3% of SoundHound AI shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Sprout Social shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.3% of SoundHound AI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sprout Social received 65 more outperform votes than SoundHound AI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.77% of users gave Sprout Social an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave SoundHound AI an outperform vote.
Summary
Sprout Social beats SoundHound AI on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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