COUR vs. ZI, WK, BLKB, BOX, FRSH, AI, ACIW, QTWO, BRZE, and ZETA
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Workiva (WK), Blackbaud (BLKB), BOX (BOX), Freshworks (FRSH), C3.ai (AI), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Q2 (QTWO), Braze (BRZE), and Zeta Global (ZETA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ:ZI) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
ZoomInfo Technologies has a net margin of 6.24% compared to ZoomInfo Technologies' net margin of -16.05%. Coursera's return on equity of 12.00% beat ZoomInfo Technologies' return on equity.
95.5% of ZoomInfo Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of ZoomInfo Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Coursera shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ZoomInfo Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Coursera. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ZoomInfo Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ZoomInfo Technologies has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ZoomInfo Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 53.97%. Coursera has a consensus target price of $16.85, indicating a potential upside of 135.83%. Given ZoomInfo Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coursera is more favorable than ZoomInfo Technologies.
In the previous week, ZoomInfo Technologies had 5 more articles in the media than Coursera. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ZoomInfo Technologies and 4 mentions for Coursera. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat ZoomInfo Technologies' score of 0.16 indicating that ZoomInfo Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ZoomInfo Technologies received 38 more outperform votes than Coursera when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.18% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 54.70% of users gave ZoomInfo Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
ZoomInfo Technologies beats Coursera on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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