WKME vs. GDYN, WEAV, MGIC, KC, SCWX, CGNT, BAND, TUYA, LAW, and DDD
Should you be buying WalkMe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WalkMe include Grid Dynamics (GDYN), Weave Communications (WEAV), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), SecureWorks (SCWX), Cognyte Software (CGNT), Bandwidth (BAND), Tuya (TUYA), CS Disco (LAW), and 3D Systems (DDD). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ:GDYN) and WalkMe (NASDAQ:WKME) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
71.2% of Grid Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of WalkMe shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Grid Dynamics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Grid Dynamics has higher revenue and earnings than WalkMe. WalkMe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grid Dynamics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Grid Dynamics has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, WalkMe has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Grid Dynamics received 27 more outperform votes than WalkMe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.24% of users gave Grid Dynamics an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave WalkMe an outperform vote.
Grid Dynamics has a net margin of 0.72% compared to Grid Dynamics' net margin of -22.15%. WalkMe's return on equity of 3.31% beat Grid Dynamics' return on equity.
Grid Dynamics presently has a consensus target price of $15.75, suggesting a potential upside of 49.71%. WalkMe has a consensus target price of $13.07, suggesting a potential upside of 59.21%. Given Grid Dynamics' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WalkMe is more favorable than Grid Dynamics.
In the previous week, Grid Dynamics had 6 more articles in the media than WalkMe. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Grid Dynamics and 10 mentions for WalkMe. Grid Dynamics' average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat WalkMe's score of 0.26 indicating that WalkMe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Grid Dynamics beats WalkMe on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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