SPT vs. BB, SOUN, SPNS, PD, EVCM, ZUO, EVBG, BASE, SWI, and PDFS
Should you be buying Sprout Social stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprout Social include BlackBerry (BB), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Sapiens International (SPNS), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Zuora (ZUO), Everbridge (EVBG), Couchbase (BASE), SolarWinds (SWI), and PDF Solutions (PDFS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) and Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
BlackBerry received 664 more outperform votes than Sprout Social when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 60.77% of users gave Sprout Social an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sprout Social had 14 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Sprout Social and 4 mentions for BlackBerry. BlackBerry's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Sprout Social's score of 0.31 indicating that Sprout Social is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackBerry presently has a consensus price target of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 43.02%. Sprout Social has a consensus price target of $57.07, suggesting a potential upside of 72.68%. Given BlackBerry's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sprout Social is more favorable than BlackBerry.
BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprout Social has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprout Social has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BlackBerry. Sprout Social is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Sprout Social shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackBerry has a net margin of -15.24% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -19.64%. Sprout Social's return on equity of -0.24% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.
Summary
BlackBerry beats Sprout Social on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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