BOX vs. GEN, SSNC, OKTA, BSY, DT, MANH, NTNX, NICE, DOCU, and MNDY
Should you be buying BOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOX include Gen Digital (GEN), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Okta (OKTA), Bentley Systems (BSY), Dynatrace (DT), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Nutanix (NTNX), NICE (NICE), DocuSign (DOCU), and monday.com (MNDY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and BOX (NYSE:BOX) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than BOX. Gen Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.16% compared to Gen Digital's net margin of 13.13%. BOX's return on equity of 49.04% beat Gen Digital's return on equity.
Gen Digital has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BOX has a consensus price target of $30.33, suggesting a potential upside of 13.65%. Given Gen Digital's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than Gen Digital.
81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of BOX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, BOX had 2 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BOX and 2 mentions for Gen Digital. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat BOX's score of 0.58 indicating that BOX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BOX received 726 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.71% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 64.81% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.
Summary
Gen Digital beats BOX on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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