BAND vs. CERT, LSPD, OPRA, KARO, NYAX, PRCH, NABL, RPD, ENFN, and PD
Should you be buying Bandwidth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bandwidth include Certara (CERT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Opera (OPRA), Karooooo (KARO), Nayax (NYAX), Porch Group (PRCH), N-able (NABL), Rapid7 (RPD), Enfusion (ENFN), and PagerDuty (PD). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Bandwidth vs. Its Competitors
Certara (NASDAQ:CERT) and Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) are both small-cap computer software companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Bandwidth has a net margin of -0.14% compared to Certara's net margin of -0.67%. Certara's return on equity of 5.05% beat Bandwidth's return on equity.
Bandwidth has higher revenue and earnings than Certara. Certara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bandwidth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.0% of Certara shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Bandwidth shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Certara shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Bandwidth shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Certara has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bandwidth has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Certara had 5 more articles in the media than Bandwidth. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Certara and 8 mentions for Bandwidth. Bandwidth's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Certara's score of 0.10 indicating that Bandwidth is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Certara presently has a consensus target price of $15.29, indicating a potential upside of 51.34%. Bandwidth has a consensus target price of $20.80, indicating a potential upside of 33.85%. Given Certara's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Certara is more favorable than Bandwidth.
Summary
Certara beats Bandwidth on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:BAND) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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