OKTA vs. BSY, SSNC, NTNX, MANH, NICE, TYL, DT, CHKP, TWLO, and PAYC
Should you be buying Okta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Okta include Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Nutanix (NTNX), Manhattan Associates (MANH), NICE (NICE), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Dynatrace (DT), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Twilio (TWLO), and Paycom Software (PAYC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) and Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Okta had 4 more articles in the media than Bentley Systems. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Okta and 10 mentions for Bentley Systems. Okta's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Bentley Systems' score of 0.51 indicating that Bentley Systems is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Okta received 476 more outperform votes than Bentley Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave Bentley Systems an outperform vote while only 59.55% of users gave Okta an outperform vote.
44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Okta shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.1% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Okta 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.
Bentley Systems has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Okta has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Bentley Systems currently has a consensus target price of $58.44, suggesting a potential upside of 8.25%. Okta has a consensus target price of $100.39, suggesting a potential upside of 8.77%. Given Bentley Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Okta is more favorable than Bentley Systems.
Bentley Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Okta. Okta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bentley Systems has a net margin of 26.60% compared to Bentley Systems' net margin of -15.69%. Okta's return on equity of 33.87% beat Bentley Systems' return on equity.
Summary
Bentley Systems beats Okta on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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