BL vs. DCT, AYX, NCNO, SWI, QTWO, ESTC, NICE, MNDY, DOCU, and CYBR
Should you be buying BlackLine stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackLine include Duck Creek Technologies (DCT), Alteryx (AYX), nCino (NCNO), SolarWinds (SWI), Q2 (QTWO), Elastic (ESTC), NICE (NICE), monday.com (MNDY), DocuSign (DOCU), and CyberArk Software (CYBR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ:DCT) and BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
BlackLine has higher revenue and earnings than Duck Creek Technologies. Duck Creek Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackLine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BlackLine had 11 more articles in the media than Duck Creek Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for BlackLine and 0 mentions for Duck Creek Technologies. BlackLine's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Duck Creek Technologies' score of 0.80 indicating that Duck Creek Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duck Creek Technologies has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackLine has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackLine has a net margin of 2.30% compared to BlackLine's net margin of -4.57%. Duck Creek Technologies' return on equity of 9.07% beat BlackLine's return on equity.
74.6% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of BlackLine shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.9% of BlackLine shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BlackLine has a consensus price target of $62.78, indicating a potential upside of 31.28%. Given Duck Creek Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BlackLine is more favorable than Duck Creek Technologies.
BlackLine received 363 more outperform votes than Duck Creek Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave BlackLine an outperform vote while only 51.61% of users gave Duck Creek Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
BlackLine beats Duck Creek Technologies on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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