S vs. DBX, BILL, SQSP, U, SMAR, DSGX, QLYS, APPF, TENB, and INFA
Should you be buying SentinelOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SentinelOne include Dropbox (DBX), BILL (BILL), Squarespace (SQSP), Unity Software (U), Smartsheet (SMAR), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Qualys (QLYS), AppFolio (APPF), Tenable (TENB), and Informatica (INFA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) and SentinelOne (NYSE:S) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Dropbox presently has a consensus price target of $29.78, suggesting a potential upside of 30.09%. SentinelOne has a consensus price target of $26.08, suggesting a potential upside of 20.64%. Given SentinelOne's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dropbox is more favorable than SentinelOne.
94.8% of Dropbox shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of SentinelOne shares are held by institutional investors. 26.4% of Dropbox shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of SentinelOne shares are held 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.
Dropbox has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SentinelOne has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dropbox has a net margin of 20.50% compared to Dropbox's net margin of -54.53%. Dropbox's return on equity of -18.84% beat SentinelOne's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dropbox and Dropbox both had 7 articles in the media. SentinelOne's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Dropbox's score of 0.74 indicating that Dropbox is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than SentinelOne. SentinelOne is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dropbox, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dropbox received 293 more outperform votes than SentinelOne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.30% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 35.47% of users gave SentinelOne an outperform vote.
Summary
Dropbox beats SentinelOne on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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