ASUR vs. CSPI, PLMI, TZOO, TLS, STRM, UIS, OSPN, RBBN, KLTR, and OOMA
Should you be buying Asure Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asure Software include CSP (CSPI), Plum Acquisition Corp. I (PLMI), Travelzoo (TZOO), Telos (TLS), Streamline Health Solutions (STRM), Unisys (UIS), OneSpan (OSPN), Ribbon Communications (RBBN), Kaltura (KLTR), and Ooma (OOMA).
CSP (NASDAQ:CSPI) and Asure Software (NASDAQ:ASUR) are both small-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.
Asure Software has a consensus price target of $14.25, indicating a potential upside of 97.92%. Given CSP's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Asure Software is more favorable than CSP.
CSP has a net margin of 6.33% compared to CSP's net margin of -7.74%. Asure Software's return on equity of 8.76% beat CSP's return on equity.
CSP has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asure Software has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CSP had 2 more articles in the media than Asure Software. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for CSP and 3 mentions for Asure Software. Asure Software's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat CSP's score of -0.29 indicating that CSP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Asure Software received 148 more outperform votes than CSP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.65% of users gave Asure Software an outperform vote while only 63.34% of users gave CSP an outperform vote.
26.7% of CSP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.6% of Asure Software shares are held by institutional investors. 15.3% of CSP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Asure Software 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.
CSP has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Asure Software. Asure Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CSP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CSP beats Asure Software on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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