GEN vs. DOCU, DT, PATH, ESTC, DUOL, CYBR, PCOR, GWRE, PCTY, and CACI
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include DocuSign (DOCU), Dynatrace (DT), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), Duolingo (DUOL), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paylocity (PCTY), and CACI International (CACI).
DocuSign (NASDAQ:DOCU) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
DocuSign received 343 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave DocuSign an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DocuSign had 1 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for DocuSign and 19 mentions for Gen Digital. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat DocuSign's score of 0.23 indicating that DocuSign is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.6% of DocuSign shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of DocuSign shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
DocuSign has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 36.84% compared to Gen Digital's net margin of 2.68%. DocuSign's return on equity of 47.34% beat Gen Digital's return on equity.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than DocuSign. Gen Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DocuSign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DocuSign currently has a consensus price target of $60.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.76%. Given Gen Digital's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe DocuSign is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Summary
Gen Digital beats DocuSign on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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