GTLB vs. INFA, MNDY, APPF, DBX, U, DSGX, PCTY, DOX, CDAY, and GWRE
Should you be buying GitLab stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GitLab include Informatica (INFA), monday.com (MNDY), AppFolio (APPF), Dropbox (DBX), Unity Software (U), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Paylocity (PCTY), Amdocs (DOX), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), and Guidewire Software (GWRE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB) and Informatica (NYSE:INFA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Informatica has a net margin of 0.03% compared to GitLab's net margin of -73.14%. Informatica's return on equity of 5.31% beat GitLab's return on equity.
GitLab presently has a consensus target price of $70.73, indicating a potential upside of 23.87%. Informatica has a consensus target price of $35.45, indicating a potential upside of 16.74%. Given GitLab's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GitLab is more favorable than Informatica.
91.7% of GitLab shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.5% of Informatica shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.4% of GitLab shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.9% of Informatica shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Informatica has higher revenue and earnings than GitLab. Informatica is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GitLab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, GitLab had 10 more articles in the media than Informatica. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for GitLab and 1 mentions for Informatica. GitLab's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Informatica's score of 0.50 indicating that GitLab is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Informatica received 255 more outperform votes than GitLab when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.61% of users gave Informatica an outperform vote while only 49.62% of users gave GitLab an outperform vote.
GitLab has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Informatica has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Informatica beats GitLab on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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