ESTC vs. DUOL, PATH, PCOR, DOCU, GEN, CFLT, SPSC, KVYO, BRZE, and CXM
Should you be buying Elastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elastic include Duolingo (DUOL), UiPath (PATH), Procore Technologies (PCOR), DocuSign (DOCU), Gen Digital (GEN), Confluent (CFLT), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Klaviyo (KVYO), Braze (BRZE), and Sprinklr (CXM). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Duolingo has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Elastic. Duolingo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duolingo has a net margin of 7.82% compared to Duolingo's net margin of 4.63%. Elastic's return on equity of 7.08% beat Duolingo's return on equity.
91.6% of Duolingo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.9% of Duolingo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Elastic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Duolingo presently has a consensus target price of $244.63, suggesting a potential upside of 35.16%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $111.26, suggesting a potential upside of 3.48%. Given Elastic's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than Elastic.
Elastic received 268 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.45% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote while only 41.25% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 62 more articles in the media than Elastic. MarketBeat recorded 69 mentions for Duolingo and 7 mentions for Elastic. Elastic's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Duolingo's score of 0.57 indicating that Duolingo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duolingo has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duolingo beats Elastic on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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