Five9 (FIVN) Competitors

HealthEquity (NASDAQ:HQY) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) are both mid-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of HQY or FIVN?

99.6% of HealthEquity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Five9 shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of HealthEquity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Five9 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate HQY or FIVN?

HealthEquity presently has a consensus target price of $111.75, suggesting a potential upside of 10.88%. Five9 has a consensus target price of $43.58, suggesting a potential upside of 65.15%. Given Five9's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Five9 is more favorable than HealthEquity.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HealthEquity	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Five9	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	15 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71

Is HQY or FIVN more profitable?

HealthEquity has a net margin of 8.41% compared to Five9's net margin of -1.23%. HealthEquity's return on equity of 9.70% beat Five9's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HealthEquity	8.41%	9.70%	6.08%
Five9	-1.23%	3.62%	0.99%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HQY or FIVN?

Five9 received 83 more outperform votes than HealthEquity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.22% of users gave HealthEquity an outperform vote while only 69.53% of users gave Five9 an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HealthEquity	Outperform Votes 540 70.22%	Underperform Votes 229 29.78%
Five9	Outperform Votes 623 69.53%	Underperform Votes 273 30.47%

Which has higher valuation & earnings, HQY or FIVN?

HealthEquity has higher revenue and earnings than Five9. Five9 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HealthEquity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HealthEquity	$1.20B	7.27	$55.71M	$1.09	92.46
Five9	$1.07B	1.87	-$81.76M	-$0.09	-293.20

Does the media favor HQY or FIVN?

In the previous week, HealthEquity had 8 more articles in the media than Five9. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for HealthEquity and 16 mentions for Five9. Five9's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat HealthEquity's score of 1.03 indicating that Five9 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HealthEquity	16 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Five9	9 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, HQY or FIVN?

HealthEquity has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five9 has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HealthEquity beats Five9 on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.