QTWO vs. OKTA, BSY, DT, MANH, NTNX, DOCU, NICE, ESTC, MNDY, and TWLO
Should you be buying Q2 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Q2 include Okta (OKTA), Bentley Systems (BSY), Dynatrace (DT), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Nutanix (NTNX), DocuSign (DOCU), NICE (NICE), Elastic (ESTC), monday.com (MNDY), and Twilio (TWLO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) and Q2 (NYSE:QTWO) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Okta has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Q2 has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Q2 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Okta. Okta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Q2, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.6% of Okta shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Okta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Q2 shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Okta had 9 more articles in the media than Q2. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Okta and 14 mentions for Q2. Q2's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Okta's score of 0.57 indicating that Okta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Okta has a net margin of -11.69% compared to Okta's net margin of -12.35%. Q2's return on equity of -3.81% beat Okta's return on equity.
Okta received 64 more outperform votes than Q2 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.37% of users gave Q2 an outperform vote while only 59.51% of users gave Okta an outperform vote.
Okta presently has a consensus price target of $104.48, suggesting a potential upside of 19.52%. Q2 has a consensus price target of $55.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.50%. Given Q2's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Okta is more favorable than Q2.
Summary
Okta beats Q2 on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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