AMSWA vs. BLZE, PRCH, MIXT, CTV, BBAI, DOMO, BAND, MTLS, ONTF, and CGNT
Should you be buying American Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Software include Backblaze (BLZE), Porch Group (PRCH), MiX Telematics (MIXT), Innovid (CTV), BigBear.ai (BBAI), Domo (DOMO), Bandwidth (BAND), Materialise (MTLS), ON24 (ONTF), and Cognyte Software (CGNT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
American Software (NASDAQ:AMSWA) and Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
In the previous week, Backblaze had 8 more articles in the media than American Software. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Backblaze and 1 mentions for American Software. American Software's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Backblaze's score of 0.64 indicating that American Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
77.0% of American Software shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.0% of Backblaze shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of American Software shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of Backblaze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
American Software has higher revenue and earnings than Backblaze. Backblaze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
American Software has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Backblaze's net margin of -57.70%. American Software's return on equity of 9.14% beat Backblaze's return on equity.
American Software has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Backblaze has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
American Software presently has a consensus price target of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 70.29%. Backblaze has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 53.34%. Given American Software's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe American Software is more favorable than Backblaze.
American Software received 382 more outperform votes than Backblaze when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.47% of users gave American Software an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Backblaze an outperform vote.
Summary
American Software beats Backblaze on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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