PRFT vs. PRO, DAVA, FORTY, PERI, GAN, HCP, GETY, VICR, UDMY, and MRCY
Should you be buying Perficient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perficient include PROS (PRO), Endava (DAVA), Formula Systems (1985) (FORTY), Perion Network (PERI), GAN (GAN), HashiCorp (HCP), Getty Images (GETY), Vicor (VICR), Udemy (UDMY), and Mercury Systems (MRCY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) and PROS (NYSE:PRO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Perficient has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PROS has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PROS had 25 more articles in the media than Perficient. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for PROS and 13 mentions for Perficient. PROS's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Perficient's score of 0.20 indicating that PROS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
95.0% of Perficient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of PROS shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Perficient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PROS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Perficient currently has a consensus target price of $67.17, indicating a potential upside of 42.18%. PROS has a consensus target price of $40.20, indicating a potential upside of 22.26%. Given Perficient's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Perficient is more favorable than PROS.
PROS received 149 more outperform votes than Perficient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.66% of users gave PROS an outperform vote while only 66.40% of users gave Perficient an outperform vote.
Perficient has higher revenue and earnings than PROS. PROS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perficient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perficient has a net margin of 10.91% compared to PROS's net margin of -18.56%. Perficient's return on equity of 23.39% beat PROS's return on equity.
Summary
Perficient beats PROS on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Perficient News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for PRFT and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PRFT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Perficient Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
