S vs. BILL, QLYS, ZI, TENB, FRSH, SMAR, DSGX, DBX, APPF, and VRNS
Should you be buying SentinelOne stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SentinelOne include BILL (BILL), Qualys (QLYS), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Tenable (TENB), Freshworks (FRSH), Smartsheet (SMAR), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Dropbox (DBX), AppFolio (APPF), and Varonis Systems (VRNS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SentinelOne (NYSE:S) and BILL (NYSE:BILL) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
SentinelOne has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BILL has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.9% of SentinelOne shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of BILL shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of SentinelOne shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of BILL shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SentinelOne currently has a consensus target price of $26.08, suggesting a potential upside of 22.75%. BILL has a consensus target price of $99.10, suggesting a potential upside of 75.15%. Given BILL's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BILL is more favorable than SentinelOne.
BILL has a net margin of -4.21% compared to SentinelOne's net margin of -54.53%. BILL's return on equity of 0.98% beat SentinelOne's return on equity.
BILL received 90 more outperform votes than SentinelOne when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.55% of users gave BILL an outperform vote while only 35.47% of users gave SentinelOne an outperform vote.
BILL has higher revenue and earnings than SentinelOne. BILL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SentinelOne, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BILL had 92 more articles in the media than SentinelOne. MarketBeat recorded 97 mentions for BILL and 5 mentions for SentinelOne. SentinelOne's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat BILL's score of 0.01 indicating that SentinelOne is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BILL beats SentinelOne on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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