SPSC vs. NEWR, QLYS, TENB, CLDR, WK, EBAY, VRSN, AKAM, ENV, and PRFT
Should you be buying SPS Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SPS Commerce include New Relic (NEWR), Qualys (QLYS), Tenable (TENB), Cloudera (CLDR), Workiva (WK), eBay (EBAY), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Envestnet (ENV), and Perficient (PRFT).
New Relic (NYSE:NEWR) and SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
In the previous week, SPS Commerce had 11 more articles in the media than New Relic. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for SPS Commerce and 1 mentions for New Relic. New Relic's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat SPS Commerce's score of 0.32 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Relic presently has a consensus target price of $85.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.52%. SPS Commerce has a consensus target price of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 6.46%. Given New Relic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than New Relic.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of -14.92%. New Relic's return on equity of 12.06% beat SPS Commerce's return on equity.
85.9% of New Relic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.0% of New Relic shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SPS Commerce received 68 more outperform votes than New Relic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 68.75% of users gave New Relic an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce has lower revenue, but higher earnings than New Relic. New Relic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Relic has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats New Relic on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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