LSPD vs. AVPT, CLBT, NABL, MTTR, COUR, MLNK, AMPL, MQ, INST, and NYAX
Should you be buying Lightspeed Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightspeed Commerce include AvePoint (AVPT), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), N-able (NABL), Matterport (MTTR), Coursera (COUR), MeridianLink (MLNK), Amplitude (AMPL), Marqeta (MQ), Instructure (INST), and Nayax (NYAX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) and AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AvePoint has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lightspeed Commerce received 71 more outperform votes than AvePoint when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.95% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave AvePoint an outperform vote.
AvePoint has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lightspeed Commerce. AvePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightspeed Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus price target of $18.58, indicating a potential upside of 22.82%. AvePoint has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.81%. Given Lightspeed Commerce's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Lightspeed Commerce is more favorable than AvePoint.
In the previous week, Lightspeed Commerce had 12 more articles in the media than AvePoint. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce and 9 mentions for AvePoint. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat AvePoint's score of 0.48 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of AvePoint shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AvePoint has a net margin of -4.91% compared to Lightspeed Commerce's net margin of -23.85%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of -2.68% beat AvePoint's return on equity.
Summary
Lightspeed Commerce beats AvePoint on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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