PRO vs. PEGA, BLKB, ACIW, VRNT, PLUS, SWI, SPNS, NTCT, DMRC, and AMSWA
Should you be buying PROS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PROS include Pegasystems (PEGA), Blackbaud (BLKB), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Verint Systems (VRNT), ePlus (PLUS), SolarWinds (SWI), Sapiens International (SPNS), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Digimarc (DMRC), and American Software (AMSWA). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
PROS (NYSE:PRO) and Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
PROS received 98 more outperform votes than Pegasystems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.77% of users gave PROS an outperform vote while only 59.59% of users gave Pegasystems an outperform vote.
PROS currently has a consensus target price of $43.33, indicating a potential upside of 54.54%. Pegasystems has a consensus target price of $72.33, indicating a potential upside of 25.40%. Given PROS's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe PROS is more favorable than Pegasystems.
94.3% of PROS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.9% of Pegasystems shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of PROS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 50.1% of Pegasystems shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Pegasystems had 4 more articles in the media than PROS. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pegasystems and 1 mentions for PROS. Pegasystems' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat PROS's score of 0.85 indicating that Pegasystems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pegasystems has a net margin of 5.32% compared to PROS's net margin of -15.65%. Pegasystems' return on equity of 45.00% beat PROS's return on equity.
PROS has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pegasystems has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pegasystems has higher revenue and earnings than PROS. PROS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pegasystems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pegasystems beats PROS on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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