DSG vs. OTEX, KXS, LSPD, CLS, NVEI, GIB.A, DCBO, ENGH, DND, and CMG
Should you be buying The Descartes Systems Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Descartes Systems Group include Open Text (OTEX), Kinaxis (KXS), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Celestica (CLS), Nuvei (NVEI), CGI (GIB.A), Docebo (DCBO), Enghouse Systems (ENGH), Dye & Durham (DND), and Computer Modelling Group (CMG). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Open Text (TSE:OTEX) and The Descartes Systems Group (TSE:DSG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Open Text has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Descartes Systems Group has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Open Text received 11 more outperform votes than The Descartes Systems Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.62% of users gave Open Text an outperform vote while only 64.01% of users gave The Descartes Systems Group an outperform vote.
Open Text has higher revenue and earnings than The Descartes Systems Group. The Descartes Systems Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Open Text, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Open Text presently has a consensus price target of C$51.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.58%. The Descartes Systems Group has a consensus price target of C$89.67, indicating a potential downside of 30.38%. Given The Descartes Systems Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Open Text is more favorable than The Descartes Systems Group.
The Descartes Systems Group has a net margin of 20.23% compared to The Descartes Systems Group's net margin of 2.24%. Open Text's return on equity of 9.92% beat The Descartes Systems Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, The Descartes Systems Group had 1 more articles in the media than Open Text. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for The Descartes Systems Group and 4 mentions for Open Text. Open Text's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat The Descartes Systems Group's score of 0.00 indicating that The Descartes Systems Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
77.9% of Open Text shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Open Text shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Open Text and The Descartes Systems Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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