BSY vs. NET, VEEV, EA, DDOG, WIT, RBLX, BIDU, HUBS, TTD, and ZS
Should you be buying Bentley Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bentley Systems include Cloudflare (NET), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Electronic Arts (EA), Datadog (DDOG), Wipro (WIT), Roblox (RBLX), Baidu (BIDU), HubSpot (HUBS), Trade Desk (TTD), and Zscaler (ZS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Bentley Systems vs.
Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) and Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Cloudflare presently has a consensus price target of $130.04, suggesting a potential upside of 12.27%. Bentley Systems has a consensus price target of $56.14, suggesting a potential upside of 35.48%. Given Bentley Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bentley Systems is more favorable than Cloudflare.
Cloudflare has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bentley Systems has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cloudflare received 130 more outperform votes than Bentley Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bentley Systems an outperform vote while only 49.12% of users gave Cloudflare an outperform vote.
Bentley Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bentley Systems has a net margin of 27.73% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -4.72%. Bentley Systems' return on equity of 29.50% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.
82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Cloudflare had 28 more articles in the media than Bentley Systems. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Cloudflare and 11 mentions for Bentley Systems. Bentley Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Cloudflare's score of 0.40 indicating that Bentley Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bentley Systems beats Cloudflare on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BSY) was last updated on 3/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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