PATH vs. NET, MBLY, PTC, RBLX, TYL, MDB, CHKP, GEN, SSNC, and OKTA
Should you be buying UiPath stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UiPath include Cloudflare (NET), Mobileye Global (MBLY), PTC (PTC), Roblox (RBLX), Tyler Technologies (TYL), MongoDB (MDB), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Gen Digital (GEN), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), and Okta (OKTA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
UiPath presently has a consensus price target of $18.12, suggesting a potential upside of 51.11%. Cloudflare has a consensus price target of $90.70, suggesting a potential upside of 28.21%. Given UiPath's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe UiPath is more favorable than Cloudflare.
62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of UiPath shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are owned 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.
UiPath has a net margin of -6.41% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -13.10%. UiPath's return on equity of -2.97% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.
In the previous week, UiPath had 16 more articles in the media than Cloudflare. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for UiPath and 26 mentions for Cloudflare. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat UiPath's score of 0.05 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UiPath has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UiPath, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cloudflare received 47 more outperform votes than UiPath when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.03% of users gave Cloudflare an outperform vote while only 43.20% of users gave UiPath an outperform vote.
UiPath has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UiPath and Cloudflare tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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