LAW vs. MLNK, ZUO, EVBG, MTTR, PDFS, BASE, VTEX, OPRA, ENFN, and COUR
Should you be buying CS Disco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CS Disco include MeridianLink (MLNK), Zuora (ZUO), Everbridge (EVBG), Matterport (MTTR), PDF Solutions (PDFS), Couchbase (BASE), VTEX (VTEX), Opera (OPRA), Enfusion (ENFN), and Coursera (COUR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
CS Disco (NYSE:LAW) and MeridianLink (NYSE:MLNK) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
CS Disco presently has a consensus price target of $9.81, suggesting a potential upside of 54.65%. MeridianLink has a consensus price target of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 2.56%. Given CS Disco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe CS Disco is more favorable than MeridianLink.
CS Disco has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MeridianLink. MeridianLink is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CS Disco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CS Disco has a beta of 2.23, meaning that its share price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MeridianLink has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CS Disco and CS Disco both had 1 articles in the media. CS Disco's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat MeridianLink's score of 0.00 indicating that CS Disco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.1% of CS Disco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of MeridianLink shares are held by institutional investors. 22.3% of CS Disco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.3% of MeridianLink shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MeridianLink has a net margin of -13.86% compared to CS Disco's net margin of -23.03%. MeridianLink's return on equity of -6.72% beat CS Disco's return on equity.
CS Disco received 29 more outperform votes than MeridianLink when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.84% of users gave CS Disco an outperform vote while only 27.08% of users gave MeridianLink an outperform vote.
Summary
CS Disco beats MeridianLink on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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