MQ vs. INST, ZETA, CXM, NABL, CLBT, LSPD, DLO, PAGS, BRZE, and COUR
Should you be buying Marqeta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marqeta include Instructure (INST), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), DLocal (DLO), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Braze (BRZE), and Coursera (COUR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Instructure has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure received 334 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 51.69% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Marqeta had 4 more articles in the media than Instructure. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Marqeta and 7 mentions for Instructure. Instructure's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Marqeta's score of 0.30 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Instructure currently has a consensus target price of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 48.71%. Marqeta has a consensus target price of $7.43, suggesting a potential upside of 30.64%. Given Marqeta's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
97.1% of Instructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Instructure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Marqeta shares are owned by 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.
Instructure has a net margin of -7.78% compared to Instructure's net margin of -32.98%. Marqeta's return on equity of 7.29% beat Instructure's return on equity.
Instructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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