SPSC vs. NEWR, QLYS, TENB, CLDR, WK, EBAY, VRSN, AKAM, ENV, and ZD
Should you be buying SPS Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SPS Commerce include New Relic (NEWR), Qualys (QLYS), Tenable (TENB), Cloudera (CLDR), Workiva (WK), eBay (EBAY), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Envestnet (ENV), and Ziff Davis (ZD).
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and New Relic (NYSE:NEWR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
SPS Commerce presently has a consensus price target of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 6.54%. New Relic has a consensus price target of $85.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.52%. Given SPS Commerce's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than New Relic.
SPS Commerce received 68 more outperform votes than New Relic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave New Relic an outperform vote.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.9% of New Relic shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of New Relic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Relic has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SPS Commerce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than New Relic. New Relic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SPS Commerce had 6 more articles in the media than New Relic. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for SPS Commerce and 0 mentions for New Relic. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat New Relic's score of 0.32 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to New Relic's net margin of -14.92%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 12.06% beat New Relic's return on equity.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats New Relic on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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