DOCN vs. IONQ, NICE, PCOR, KVYO, DSGX, ESTC, DOCS, SAIL, DAY, and NBIS
Should you be buying DigitalOcean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DigitalOcean include IonQ (IONQ), NICE (NICE), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Klaviyo (KVYO), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), Elastic (ESTC), Doximity (DOCS), Sailpoint (SAIL), Dayforce (DAY), and Nebius Group (NBIS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
DigitalOcean vs.
DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN) and IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
DigitalOcean currently has a consensus price target of $39.83, suggesting a potential upside of 33.53%. IonQ has a consensus price target of $38.33, suggesting a potential downside of 3.25%. Given DigitalOcean's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe DigitalOcean is more favorable than IonQ.
In the previous week, IonQ had 19 more articles in the media than DigitalOcean. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for IonQ and 6 mentions for DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat IonQ's score of 0.79 indicating that DigitalOcean is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DigitalOcean has higher revenue and earnings than IonQ. IonQ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DigitalOcean, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DigitalOcean has a net margin of 10.86% compared to IonQ's net margin of -457.85%. IonQ's return on equity of -36.82% beat DigitalOcean's return on equity.
DigitalOcean has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IonQ has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DigitalOcean received 41 more outperform votes than IonQ when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.25% of users gave IonQ an outperform vote while only 46.90% of users gave DigitalOcean an outperform vote.
49.8% of DigitalOcean shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.4% of IonQ shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of DigitalOcean shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of IonQ shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
DigitalOcean beats IonQ on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DOCN) was last updated on 6/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
