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$22.81
0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 10/1/2024)

PWSC vs. SNAP, GEN, DT, NTNX, PSN, MNDY, DOCU, BSY, DUOL, and OKTA

Should you be buying PowerSchool stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PowerSchool include Snap (SNAP), Gen Digital (GEN), Dynatrace (DT), Nutanix (NTNX), Parsons (PSN), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), Bentley Systems (BSY), Duolingo (DUOL), and Okta (OKTA). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

PowerSchool vs.

PowerSchool (NYSE:PWSC) and Snap (NYSE:SNAP) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.

In the previous week, Snap had 37 more articles in the media than PowerSchool. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Snap and 0 mentions for PowerSchool. Snap's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat PowerSchool's score of 0.00 indicating that Snap is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
PowerSchool Neutral
Snap Positive

65.3% of PowerSchool shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of Snap shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of PowerSchool shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Snap shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

PowerSchool presently has a consensus price target of $24.02, suggesting a potential upside of 5.30%. Snap has a consensus price target of $14.25, suggesting a potential upside of 17.19%. Given Snap's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Snap is more favorable than PowerSchool.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PowerSchool
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.23
Snap
1 Sell rating(s)
22 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.23

PowerSchool has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snap has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

PowerSchool has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Snap. PowerSchool is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Snap, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PowerSchool$740.86M6.27-$31.14M-$0.24-95.04
Snap$4.98B4.01-$1.32B-$0.81-15.01

PowerSchool has a net margin of -7.51% compared to Snap's net margin of -23.49%. PowerSchool's return on equity of 6.10% beat Snap's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PowerSchool-7.51% 6.10% 2.83%
Snap -23.49%-42.84%-12.88%

Snap received 1027 more outperform votes than PowerSchool when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.40% of users gave Snap an outperform vote while only 54.00% of users gave PowerSchool an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PowerSchoolOutperform Votes
54
54.00%
Underperform Votes
46
46.00%
SnapOutperform Votes
1081
58.40%
Underperform Votes
770
41.60%

Summary

PowerSchool and Snap tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PWSC vs. The Competition

MetricPowerSchoolPrepackaged software IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.65B$23.32B$8.02B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A2.21%2.74%3.52%
P/E Ratio-95.0471.3617.7431.76
Price / Sales6.2744.3931.2417.87
Price / Cash19.2081.2215.0020.46
Price / Book2.6310.295.385.38
Net Income-$31.14M$453.53M$246.56M$984.37M
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.90%0.16%-0.54%
1 Month PerformanceN/A-0.62%1.07%-0.97%
1 Year Performance14.45%25.89%66.28%29.31%

PowerSchool Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PWSC
PowerSchool
N/A$22.81
flat
$24.02
+5.3%
N/A$4.65B$740.86M-95.043,563Upcoming Earnings
SNAP
Snap
3.019 of 5 stars
$10.74
+2.8%
$14.08
+31.1%
+30.0%$17.82B$4.61B-14.925,289Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
News Coverage
GEN
Gen Digital
3.8953 of 5 stars
$27.08
+0.4%
N/A+61.6%$16.67B$3.81B28.513,400Gap Up
DT
Dynatrace
4.8334 of 5 stars
$54.35
+0.5%
$60.46
+11.2%
+25.2%$16.21B$1.50B104.524,700Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
NTNX
Nutanix
4.6978 of 5 stars
$64.81
+5.2%
$73.31
+13.1%
+82.6%$15.98B$2.15B-124.637,150Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
PSN
Parsons
2.5159 of 5 stars
$104.44
+0.2%
$99.00
-5.2%
+96.9%$15.33B$6.12B242.8918,500Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
MNDY
monday.com
2.3445 of 5 stars
$301.06
+0.5%
$303.35
+0.8%
+131.0%$14.53B$844.78M376.331,168Positive News
DOCU
DocuSign
4.0191 of 5 stars
$69.83
+1.2%
$63.40
-9.2%
+77.9%$14.30B$2.86B14.736,840
BSY
Bentley Systems
4.7934 of 5 stars
$49.26
+0.2%
$59.57
+20.9%
+2.4%$14.21B$1.29B43.215,200Upcoming Earnings
Insider Selling
DUOL
Duolingo
3.3309 of 5 stars
$293.05
+0.5%
$277.22
-5.4%
+109.2%$12.76B$531.11M209.32600Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
OKTA
Okta
4.7961 of 5 stars
$73.09
+1.2%
$98.96
+35.4%
+10.1%$12.42B$2.26B-87.015,908

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This page (NYSE:PWSC) was last updated on 10/31/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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