WISE vs. SCT, CCC, SGE, FBT, SXS, DARK, RSW, FDM, FDP, and KCT
Should you be buying Wise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wise include Softcat (SCT), Computacenter (CCC), The Sage Group (SGE), First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology UCITS ETF Class A USD Accumulation (FBT), Spectris (SXS), Darktrace (DARK), Renishaw (RSW), FDM Group (FDM), FD Technologies (FDP), and Kin and Carta (KCT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Wise (LON:WISE) and Softcat (LON:SCT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Wise has higher revenue and earnings than Softcat. Softcat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
23.5% of Wise shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.3% of Softcat shares are held by institutional investors. 28.6% of Wise shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of Softcat shares are held by company 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.
Wise currently has a consensus target price of GBX 896.20, indicating a potential upside of 13.01%. Softcat has a consensus target price of GBX 1,393.33, indicating a potential downside of 11.70%. Given Wise's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Wise is more favorable than Softcat.
Wise has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Softcat has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Wise had 29 more articles in the media than Softcat. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Wise and 1 mentions for Softcat. Softcat's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Wise's score of 0.59 indicating that Softcat is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Softcat received 291 more outperform votes than Wise when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.15% of users gave Softcat an outperform vote while only 17.86% of users gave Wise an outperform vote.
Wise has a net margin of 18.05% compared to Softcat's net margin of 12.04%. Softcat's return on equity of 50.40% beat Wise's return on equity.
Summary
Softcat beats Wise on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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