DSGX vs. APPF, DBX, S, GTLB, BILL, GWRE, PCTY, QLYS, INFA, and ZI
Should you be buying The Descartes Systems Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Descartes Systems Group include AppFolio (APPF), Dropbox (DBX), SentinelOne (S), GitLab (GTLB), BILL (BILL), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paylocity (PCTY), Qualys (QLYS), Informatica (INFA), and ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) and The Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ:DSGX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
The Descartes Systems Group has a net margin of 20.23% compared to The Descartes Systems Group's net margin of 0.44%. AppFolio's return on equity of 9.80% beat The Descartes Systems Group's return on equity.
AppFolio presently has a consensus target price of $239.40, indicating a potential upside of 8.10%. The Descartes Systems Group has a consensus target price of $97.78, indicating a potential upside of 5.51%. Given The Descartes Systems Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe AppFolio is more favorable than The Descartes Systems Group.
49.0% of AppFolio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.7% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are held by institutional investors. 9.2% of AppFolio shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of The Descartes Systems Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The Descartes Systems Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AppFolio. The Descartes Systems Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppFolio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Descartes Systems Group received 207 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave The Descartes Systems Group an outperform vote while only 55.91% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AppFolio had 12 more articles in the media than The Descartes Systems Group. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for AppFolio and 4 mentions for The Descartes Systems Group. AppFolio's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat The Descartes Systems Group's score of 0.60 indicating that The Descartes Systems Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AppFolio has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Descartes Systems Group has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
The Descartes Systems Group beats AppFolio on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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