DUOL vs. SPSC, KVYO, CFLT, PCOR, ESTC, BRZE, PATH, ZETA, CXM, and DOCU
Should you be buying Duolingo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duolingo include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Klaviyo (KVYO), Confluent (CFLT), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Elastic (ESTC), Braze (BRZE), UiPath (PATH), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) and SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
91.6% of Duolingo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Duolingo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 44 more articles in the media than SPS Commerce. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Duolingo and 27 mentions for SPS Commerce. Duolingo's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat SPS Commerce's score of 0.57 indicating that Duolingo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SPS Commerce has higher revenue and earnings than Duolingo. SPS Commerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SPS Commerce received 596 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 41.25% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to Duolingo's net margin of 7.82%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 12.06% beat Duolingo's return on equity.
Duolingo has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Duolingo currently has a consensus target price of $244.63, suggesting a potential upside of 39.78%. SPS Commerce has a consensus target price of $200.25, suggesting a potential upside of 1.15%. Given Duolingo's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than SPS Commerce.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats Duolingo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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