BL vs. ACIW, TDC, BOX, ASAN, NCNO, CWAN, SVFCX, BLKB, FROG, and PYCR
Should you be buying BlackLine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackLine include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Teradata (TDC), BOX (BOX), Asana (ASAN), nCino (NCNO), Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), Smead Value C (SVFCX), Blackbaud (BLKB), JFrog (FROG), and Paycor HCM (PYCR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
BlackLine currently has a consensus price target of $62.20, indicating a potential upside of 5.78%. ACI Worldwide has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Given ACI Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ACI Worldwide is more favorable than BlackLine.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 9.88% compared to BlackLine's net margin of -1.50%. ACI Worldwide's return on equity of 17.31% beat BlackLine's return on equity.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than BlackLine. BlackLine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ACI Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackLine has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 20 more articles in the media than BlackLine. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 4 mentions for BlackLine. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat BlackLine's score of 0.10 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.1% of BlackLine shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of BlackLine shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BlackLine received 78 more outperform votes than ACI Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.39% of users gave BlackLine an outperform vote while only 63.25% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats BlackLine on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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