INST vs. MQ, ZETA, CXM, NABL, CLBT, LSPD, COUR, MTTR, AVPT, and BRZE
Should you be buying Instructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Instructure include Marqeta (MQ), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Coursera (COUR), Matterport (MTTR), AvePoint (AVPT), and Braze (BRZE). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Instructure presently has a consensus price target of $29.67, indicating a potential upside of 50.98%. Marqeta has a consensus price target of $7.57, indicating a potential upside of 37.41%. Given Instructure's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
Instructure has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure received 336 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.12% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 50.88% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Instructure has a net margin of -6.43% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -32.97%. Instructure's return on equity of 7.03% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
In the previous week, Instructure had 1 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Instructure and 3 mentions for Marqeta. Instructure's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Marqeta's score of -0.02 indicating that Instructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.1% of Instructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Instructure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of Marqeta shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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