AGYS vs. SYKE, NXGN, NTCT, SLP, DMRC, SNX, NSIT, ARW, CNXN, and SCSC
Should you be buying Agilysys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agilysys include Sykes Enterprises (SYKE), NextGen Healthcare (NXGN), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Simulations Plus (SLP), Digimarc (DMRC), TD SYNNEX (SNX), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), Arrow Electronics (ARW), PC Connection (CNXN), and ScanSource (SCSC).
Sykes Enterprises (NASDAQ:SYKE) and Agilysys (NASDAQ:AGYS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
82.2% of Sykes Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.0% of Agilysys shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Sykes Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of Agilysys shares are owned 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.
Sykes Enterprises received 2 more outperform votes than Agilysys when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.25% of users gave Sykes Enterprises an outperform vote while only 63.11% of users gave Agilysys an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Agilysys had 17 more articles in the media than Sykes Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Agilysys and 6 mentions for Sykes Enterprises. Sykes Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Agilysys' score of -0.20 indicating that Agilysys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Agilysys has a consensus target price of $122.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.21%. Given Sykes Enterprises' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Agilysys is more favorable than Sykes Enterprises.
Agilysys has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sykes Enterprises. Sykes Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilysys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Agilysys has a net margin of 40.32% compared to Agilysys' net margin of 3.83%. Agilysys' return on equity of 13.41% beat Sykes Enterprises' return on equity.
Sykes Enterprises has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agilysys has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Agilysys beats Sykes Enterprises on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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