FRSH vs. GEN, BSY, SSNC, MANH, DT, NICE, MNDY, DOCU, PATH, and ESTC
Should you be buying Freshworks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freshworks include Gen Digital (GEN), Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Dynatrace (DT), NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), and Elastic (ESTC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and Freshworks (NASDAQ:FRSH) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.16% compared to Gen Digital's net margin of -18.93%. Freshworks' return on equity of 49.04% beat Gen Digital's return on equity.
Gen Digital received 26 more outperform votes than Freshworks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote while only 39.81% of users gave Freshworks an outperform vote.
81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.6% of Freshworks shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of Freshworks shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gen Digital has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshworks has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Freshworks has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 59.30%. Given Gen Digital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Freshworks is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Freshworks. Freshworks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gen Digital had 1 more articles in the media than Freshworks. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Gen Digital and 8 mentions for Freshworks. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Freshworks' score of -0.01 indicating that Freshworks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gen Digital beats Freshworks on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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