DCT vs. PD, SVFCX, ACIW, INTA, PRGS, RPD, SPT, AYX, VRNS, and EVCM
Should you be buying Duck Creek Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duck Creek Technologies include PagerDuty (PD), Smead Value Fund (SVFCX), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Intapp (INTA), Progress Software (PRGS), Rapid7 (RPD), Sprout Social (SPT), Alteryx (AYX), Varonis Systems (VRNS), and EverCommerce (EVCM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Duck Creek Technologies vs.
Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ:DCT) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Duck Creek Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.01%. PagerDuty has a consensus price target of $34.70, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given PagerDuty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Duck Creek Technologies.
PagerDuty received 99 more outperform votes than Duck Creek Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.09% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote while only 51.61% of users gave Duck Creek Technologies an outperform vote.
Duck Creek Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PagerDuty. Duck Creek Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagerDuty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.6% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of PagerDuty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PagerDuty had 14 more articles in the media than Duck Creek Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for PagerDuty and 0 mentions for Duck Creek Technologies. Duck Creek Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.37 indicating that Duck Creek Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duck Creek Technologies has a net margin of -4.57% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -34.63%. Duck Creek Technologies' return on equity of 0.54% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
Duck Creek Technologies has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PagerDuty beats Duck Creek Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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