WK vs. GEN, SSNC, OKTA, BSY, DT, MANH, NTNX, DOCU, NICE, and ESTC
Should you be buying Workiva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workiva include Gen Digital (GEN), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Okta (OKTA), Bentley Systems (BSY), Dynatrace (DT), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Nutanix (NTNX), DocuSign (DOCU), NICE (NICE), and Elastic (ESTC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Workiva (NYSE:WK) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
Workiva has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Workiva received 323 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.50% of users gave Workiva an outperform vote while only 64.81% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Workiva had 2 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Workiva and 2 mentions for Gen Digital. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Workiva's score of 0.28 indicating that Gen Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.2% of Workiva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Workiva shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Workiva currently has a consensus target price of $111.86, indicating a potential upside of 45.10%. Given Workiva's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Workiva is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Workiva. Workiva is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.16% compared to Workiva's net margin of -14.20%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 49.04% beat Workiva's return on equity.
Summary
Gen Digital beats Workiva on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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