CDAY vs. APPF, MNDY, INFA, DAY, PCTY, GWRE, GTLB, U, DSGX, and CYBR
Should you be buying Ceridian HCM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceridian HCM include AppFolio (APPF), monday.com (MNDY), Informatica (INFA), Dayforce (DAY), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), GitLab (GTLB), Unity Software (U), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and CyberArk Software (CYBR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) and Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
AppFolio has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ceridian HCM. AppFolio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AppFolio has a net margin of 11.38% compared to AppFolio's net margin of 0.28%. Ceridian HCM's return on equity of 13.51% beat AppFolio's return on equity.
Ceridian HCM received 20 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote while only 55.98% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AppFolio had 10 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for AppFolio and 1 mentions for Ceridian HCM. AppFolio's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Ceridian HCM's score of 0.84 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AppFolio currently has a consensus target price of $241.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.55%. Ceridian HCM has a consensus target price of $76.80, indicating a potential upside of 23.67%. Given AppFolio's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than AppFolio.
62.3% of AppFolio shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of AppFolio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are held 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.
AppFolio has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AppFolio beats Ceridian HCM on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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