BB vs. SPT, SOUN, SPNS, PD, EVCM, ZUO, EVBG, BASE, SWI, and PDFS
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Sprout Social (SPT), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Sapiens International (SPNS), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Zuora (ZUO), Everbridge (EVBG), Couchbase (BASE), SolarWinds (SWI), and PDF Solutions (PDFS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
BlackBerry received 664 more outperform votes than Sprout Social when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 60.77% of users gave Sprout Social an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sprout Social had 31 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Sprout Social and 3 mentions for BlackBerry. Sprout Social's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.14 indicating that BlackBerry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Sprout Social shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sprout Social has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BlackBerry. Sprout Social is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sprout Social has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprout Social currently has a consensus price target of $57.07, suggesting a potential upside of 75.71%. BlackBerry has a consensus price target of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 39.36%. Given BlackBerry's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sprout Social is more favorable than BlackBerry.
BlackBerry has a net margin of -15.24% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -19.64%. Sprout Social's return on equity of -0.24% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.
Summary
BlackBerry beats Sprout Social on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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