SSTI vs. EGAN, CMCM, WIMI, RDVT, BNFT, KC, DH, BIGC, WEAV, and SCWX
Should you be buying SoundThinking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundThinking include eGain (EGAN), Cheetah Mobile (CMCM), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), Red Violet (RDVT), Benefitfocus (BNFT), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Definitive Healthcare (DH), BigCommerce (BIGC), Weave Communications (WEAV), and SecureWorks (SCWX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
eGain (NASDAQ:EGAN) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) 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, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and valuation.
53.9% of eGain shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by institutional investors. 34.3% of eGain shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
eGain received 19 more outperform votes than SoundThinking when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave eGain an outperform vote while only 68.46% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.
In the previous week, SoundThinking had 1 more articles in the media than eGain. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SoundThinking and 2 mentions for eGain. eGain's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat SoundThinking's score of 0.72 indicating that SoundThinking is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
eGain presently has a consensus price target of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 51.27%. SoundThinking has a consensus price target of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 64.47%. Given eGain's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SoundThinking is more favorable than eGain.
eGain has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
eGain has a net margin of 9.34% compared to eGain's net margin of -3.94%. SoundThinking's return on equity of 13.83% beat eGain's return on equity.
eGain has higher revenue and earnings than SoundThinking. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than eGain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
eGain beats SoundThinking on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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