BAND vs. LPSN, SPNS, EVCM, LSPD, SPT, SEMR, AVPT, SWI, PD, and MLNK
Should you be buying Bandwidth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bandwidth include LivePerson (LPSN), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Sprout Social (SPT), Semrush (SEMR), AvePoint (AVPT), SolarWinds (SWI), PagerDuty (PD), and MeridianLink (MLNK). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) and LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Bandwidth has higher revenue and earnings than LivePerson. Bandwidth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LivePerson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bandwidth has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LivePerson has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bandwidth has a net margin of -4.60% compared to LivePerson's net margin of -31.27%. Bandwidth's return on equity of -2.49% beat LivePerson's return on equity.
Bandwidth presently has a consensus price target of $25.63, suggesting a potential upside of 14.65%. LivePerson has a consensus price target of $1.38, suggesting a potential downside of 3.85%. Given Bandwidth's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Bandwidth is more favorable than LivePerson.
In the previous week, Bandwidth had 11 more articles in the media than LivePerson. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Bandwidth and 3 mentions for LivePerson. LivePerson's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Bandwidth's score of 0.54 indicating that LivePerson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.5% of Bandwidth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of LivePerson shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Bandwidth shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of LivePerson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
LivePerson received 59 more outperform votes than Bandwidth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.61% of users gave Bandwidth an outperform vote while only 58.37% of users gave LivePerson an outperform vote.
Summary
Bandwidth beats LivePerson on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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