TENB vs. QLYS, CLDR, WK, ACIW, SPSC, RBLX, MDB, CHKP, GEN, and SSNC
Should you be buying Tenable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tenable include Qualys (QLYS), Cloudera (CLDR), Workiva (WK), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Roblox (RBLX), MongoDB (MDB), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Gen Digital (GEN), and SS&C Technologies (SSNC).
Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) and Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
Tenable currently has a consensus price target of $57.20, suggesting a potential upside of 41.27%. Qualys has a consensus price target of $162.23, suggesting a potential upside of 20.16%. Given Tenable's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tenable is more favorable than Qualys.
Tenable has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qualys has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
89.1% of Tenable shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Qualys shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Tenable shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Qualys shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Qualys has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tenable. Tenable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qualys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qualys received 257 more outperform votes than Tenable when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.35% of users gave Tenable an outperform vote while only 59.84% of users gave Qualys an outperform vote.
Qualys has a net margin of 28.48% compared to Tenable's net margin of -8.18%. Qualys' return on equity of 47.28% beat Tenable's return on equity.
In the previous week, Qualys had 6 more articles in the media than Tenable. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Qualys and 5 mentions for Tenable. Tenable's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Qualys' score of 0.39 indicating that Tenable is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Qualys beats Tenable on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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