BB vs. FSLY, SPNS, EVCM, SEMR, SWI, PD, EVBG, ZUO, DCBO, and VTEX
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Fastly (FSLY), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), Semrush (SEMR), SolarWinds (SWI), PagerDuty (PD), Everbridge (EVBG), Zuora (ZUO), Docebo (DCBO), and VTEX (VTEX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) and BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
BlackBerry received 617 more outperform votes than Fastly when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 51.22% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
Fastly presently has a consensus target price of $18.56, suggesting a potential upside of 43.29%. BlackBerry has a consensus target price of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 44.29%. Given Fastly's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than Fastly.
BlackBerry has a net margin of -15.24% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -26.30%. Fastly's return on equity of -0.24% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.
In the previous week, Fastly had 8 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Fastly and 1 mentions for BlackBerry. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.09 indicating that BlackBerry is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackBerry has higher revenue and earnings than Fastly. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fastly has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackBerry has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
79.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Fastly shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
BlackBerry beats Fastly on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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.
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