MSTR vs. CVLT, INST, EPAY, PING, PRGS, SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, and FICO
Should you be buying MicroStrategy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MicroStrategy include Commvault Systems (CVLT), Instructure (INST), Bottomline Technologies (EPAY), Ping Identity (PING), Progress Software (PRGS), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), and Fair Isaac (FICO).
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and Commvault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
72.0% of MicroStrategy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Commvault Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of MicroStrategy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Commvault Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MicroStrategy currently has a consensus price target of $1,793.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.33%. Commvault Systems has a consensus price target of $119.40, suggesting a potential upside of 4.08%. Given MicroStrategy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe MicroStrategy is more favorable than Commvault Systems.
MicroStrategy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Commvault Systems. MicroStrategy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Commvault Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Commvault Systems received 156 more outperform votes than MicroStrategy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.50% of users gave Commvault Systems an outperform vote while only 62.21% of users gave MicroStrategy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MicroStrategy had 10 more articles in the media than Commvault Systems. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for MicroStrategy and 5 mentions for Commvault Systems. Commvault Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat MicroStrategy's score of 0.59 indicating that Commvault Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Commvault Systems has a net margin of 20.13% compared to MicroStrategy's net margin of -17.40%. Commvault Systems' return on equity of 31.27% beat MicroStrategy's return on equity.
MicroStrategy has a beta of 3.08, suggesting that its stock price is 208% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Commvault Systems has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Commvault Systems beats MicroStrategy on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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