SWI vs. SPNS, ACIW, PD, SEMR, EVCM, FSLY, BB, INTA, PRGS, and EVBG
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include Sapiens International (SPNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), PagerDuty (PD), Semrush (SEMR), EverCommerce (EVCM), Fastly (FSLY), BlackBerry (BB), Intapp (INTA), Progress Software (PRGS), and Everbridge (EVBG). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Sapiens International currently has a consensus target price of $34.33, suggesting a potential upside of 11.26%. SolarWinds has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 15.38%. Given Sapiens International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than Sapiens International.
Sapiens International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SolarWinds. Sapiens International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of 1.58%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 16.92% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
In the previous week, SolarWinds had 18 more articles in the media than Sapiens International. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for SolarWinds and 4 mentions for Sapiens International. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.39 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SolarWinds received 53 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 59.67% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
Summary
Sapiens International beats SolarWinds on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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