APPF vs. DBX, GTLB, DSGX, PCTY, GWRE, INFA, MNDY, U, DAY, and CDAY
Should you be buying AppFolio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppFolio include Dropbox (DBX), GitLab (GTLB), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Informatica (INFA), monday.com (MNDY), Unity Software (U), Dayforce (DAY), and Ceridian HCM (CDAY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) and AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Dropbox has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than AppFolio. Dropbox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppFolio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dropbox presently has a consensus price target of $29.78, suggesting a potential upside of 27.42%. AppFolio has a consensus price target of $241.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.79%. Given AppFolio's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Dropbox is more favorable than AppFolio.
Dropbox received 73 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.30% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
94.8% of Dropbox shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of AppFolio shares are held by institutional investors. 26.4% of Dropbox shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of AppFolio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dropbox has a net margin of 18.13% compared to Dropbox's net margin of 11.38%. Dropbox's return on equity of 13.51% beat AppFolio's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dropbox had 6 more articles in the media than AppFolio. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Dropbox and 7 mentions for AppFolio. Dropbox's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat AppFolio's score of 0.14 indicating that AppFolio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dropbox beats AppFolio on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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