JKHY vs. OTEX, PSN, CACI, LDOS, IOT, SAIC, GDDY, FLEX, JNPR, and NVT
Should you be buying Jack Henry & Associates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jack Henry & Associates include Open Text (OTEX), Parsons (PSN), CACI International (CACI), Leidos (LDOS), Samsara (IOT), Science Applications International (SAIC), GoDaddy (GDDY), Flex (FLEX), Juniper Networks (JNPR), and nVent Electric (NVT).
Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) and Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ:JKHY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
70.4% of Open Text shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are held by institutional investors. 10.6% of Open Text shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Open Text pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Jack Henry & Associates pays an annual dividend of $2.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Open Text pays out 212.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jack Henry & Associates pays out 43.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Open Text has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Jack Henry & Associates has increased its dividend for 34 consecutive years.
Open Text received 273 more outperform votes than Jack Henry & Associates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.87% of users gave Open Text an outperform vote while only 53.86% of users gave Jack Henry & Associates an outperform vote.
Jack Henry & Associates has a net margin of 17.26% compared to Jack Henry & Associates' net margin of 2.24%. Jack Henry & Associates' return on equity of 22.99% beat Open Text's return on equity.
Jack Henry & Associates has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Open Text. Jack Henry & Associates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Open Text, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Jack Henry & Associates had 2 more articles in the media than Open Text. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Jack Henry & Associates and 7 mentions for Open Text. Open Text's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Jack Henry & Associates' score of 0.57 indicating that Jack Henry & Associates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Open Text has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jack Henry & Associates has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Open Text currently has a consensus target price of $46.25, indicating a potential upside of 33.09%. Jack Henry & Associates has a consensus target price of $172.42, indicating a potential upside of 4.64%. Given Jack Henry & Associates' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Open Text is more favorable than Jack Henry & Associates.
Summary
Jack Henry & Associates beats Open Text on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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