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Agora (API) Competitors

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$3.67 -0.03 (-0.81%)
As of 07/3/2025 01:00 PM Eastern

API vs. COUR, BASE, SEMR, IAS, PD, PRCH, MLNK, TUYA, JAMF, and VTEX

Should you be buying Agora stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agora include Coursera (COUR), Couchbase (BASE), Semrush (SEMR), Integral Ad Science (IAS), PagerDuty (PD), Porch Group (PRCH), MeridianLink (MLNK), Tuya (TUYA), Jamf (JAMF), and VTEX (VTEX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Agora vs. Its Competitors

Coursera (NYSE:COUR) and Agora (NASDAQ:API) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Coursera currently has a consensus price target of $9.40, indicating a potential upside of 9.64%. Agora has a consensus price target of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 63.49%. Given Agora's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Agora is more favorable than Coursera.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Coursera
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33
Agora
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Coursera had 5 more articles in the media than Agora. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Coursera and 1 mentions for Agora. Agora's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Coursera's score of 0.69 indicating that Agora is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Coursera
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Agora
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Agora has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coursera. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Coursera$694.67M1.99-$79.53M-$0.43-19.93
Agora$133.26M2.57-$42.73M-$0.36-10.19

Coursera has a net margin of -9.37% compared to Agora's net margin of -24.61%. Agora's return on equity of -5.69% beat Coursera's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Coursera-9.37% -7.22% -4.65%
Agora -24.61%-5.69%-4.74%

89.6% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Coursera shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.6% of Agora shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Coursera has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agora has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Coursera and Agora tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding API and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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API vs. The Competition

MetricAgoraTechnology Services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$345.34M$2.37B$12.98B$8.95B
Dividend YieldN/A1.34%2.57%4.08%
P/E Ratio-10.1931.4428.6620.24
Price / Sales2.5736.3442.42125.29
Price / CashN/A40.7025.6857.47
Price / Book0.605.876.275.67
Net Income-$42.73M$32.32M$187.50M$248.47M
7 Day Performance-2.91%5.99%3.54%3.29%
1 Month Performance-3.67%7.19%4.13%5.18%
1 Year Performance56.17%32.79%27.93%21.35%

Agora Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
API
Agora
3.2571 of 5 stars
$3.67
-0.8%
$6.00
+63.5%
+56.2%$345.34M$133.26M-10.191,310
COUR
Coursera
1.7182 of 5 stars
$8.42
+1.5%
$9.40
+11.7%
+21.5%$1.36B$694.67M-19.571,260
BASE
Couchbase
1.767 of 5 stars
$24.58
+0.4%
$22.94
-6.7%
+35.6%$1.32B$209.47M0.00650Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
SEMR
Semrush
3.5917 of 5 stars
$9.03
+1.7%
$16.43
+82.0%
-33.5%$1.31B$396.02M112.831,170
IAS
Integral Ad Science
3.0234 of 5 stars
$7.92
-0.3%
$13.55
+71.1%
-11.9%$1.31B$530.10M27.31760
PD
PagerDuty
3.6019 of 5 stars
$14.07
+1.0%
$19.50
+38.6%
-27.7%$1.28B$476.13M-35.161,242News Coverage
PRCH
Porch Group
1.7664 of 5 stars
$10.44
-2.6%
$8.89
-14.8%
+617.2%$1.27B$437.85M-74.571,700Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
MLNK
MeridianLink
1.0389 of 5 stars
$16.28
+3.1%
$19.42
+19.3%
-19.8%$1.26B$316.30M-42.84620
TUYA
Tuya
0.4807 of 5 stars
$2.32
-0.9%
N/A+47.9%$1.25B$298.62M58.011,435
JAMF
Jamf
N/A$9.12
+0.3%
$26.43
+189.8%
-45.7%$1.20B$642.90M-24.002,595
VTEX
VTEX
3.4879 of 5 stars
$6.52
+2.0%
$8.70
+33.4%
-9.0%$1.19B$226.71M72.451,368

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This page (NASDAQ:API) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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