CFLT vs. DUOL, ESTC, TOST, PCOR, FFIV, PATH, SPSC, DOCU, GEN, and DT
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include Duolingo (DUOL), Elastic (ESTC), Toast (TOST), Procore Technologies (PCOR), F5 (FFIV), UiPath (PATH), SPS Commerce (SPSC), DocuSign (DOCU), Gen Digital (GEN), and Dynatrace (DT).
Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) and Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 16 more articles in the media than Confluent. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Duolingo and 6 mentions for Confluent. Confluent's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Duolingo's score of 0.85 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.1% of Confluent shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Duolingo shares are held by institutional investors. 22.1% of Confluent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of Duolingo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Duolingo has a net margin of 3.03% compared to Confluent's net margin of -56.99%. Duolingo's return on equity of 2.64% beat Confluent's return on equity.
Duolingo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Confluent currently has a consensus price target of $30.64, indicating a potential upside of 7.25%. Duolingo has a consensus price target of $245.13, indicating a potential upside of 12.56%. Given Duolingo's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than Confluent.
Confluent received 39 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.92% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote while only 40.26% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
Confluent has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duolingo has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duolingo beats Confluent on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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