SOHU vs. EGHT, PCYG, QBTS, TCX, OOMA, TRVG, INOD, LTRPA, TASK, and ETWO
Should you be buying Sohu.com stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sohu.com include 8X8 (EGHT), Park City Group (PCYG), D-Wave Quantum (QBTS), Tucows (TCX), Ooma (OOMA), trivago (TRVG), Innodata (INOD), Liberty TripAdvisor (LTRPA), TaskUs (TASK), and E2open Parent (ETWO). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Sohu.com (NASDAQ:SOHU) and 8X8 (NASDAQ:EGHT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
33.0% of Sohu.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of 8X8 shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Sohu.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of 8X8 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Sohu.com has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 8X8 has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its stock price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sohu.com currently has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 67.22%. 8X8 has a consensus target price of $3.68, indicating a potential upside of 64.96%. Given Sohu.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sohu.com is more favorable than 8X8.
Sohu.com received 194 more outperform votes than 8X8 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.26% of users gave 8X8 an outperform vote while only 46.67% of users gave Sohu.com an outperform vote.
In the previous week, 8X8 had 7 more articles in the media than Sohu.com. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for 8X8 and 1 mentions for Sohu.com. Sohu.com's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat 8X8's score of 0.24 indicating that Sohu.com is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sohu.com has a net margin of -5.06% compared to 8X8's net margin of -7.28%. Sohu.com's return on equity of -4.88% beat 8X8's return on equity.
Sohu.com has higher earnings, but lower revenue than 8X8. Sohu.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 8X8, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Sohu.com and 8X8 tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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