MDB vs. SPLK, MSTR, ANSS, PTC, HUBS, NET, CHKP, TYL, OKTA, and VEEV
Should you be buying MongoDB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MongoDB include Splunk (SPLK), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), PTC (PTC), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Okta (OKTA), and Veeva Systems (VEEV). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB) and Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
MongoDB currently has a consensus price target of $455.62, suggesting a potential upside of 27.85%. Splunk has a consensus price target of $135.31, suggesting a potential downside of 13.76%. Given MongoDB's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MongoDB is more favorable than Splunk.
In the previous week, Splunk had 12 more articles in the media than MongoDB. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Splunk and 15 mentions for MongoDB. MongoDB's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Splunk's score of 0.49 indicating that MongoDB is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Splunk received 1241 more outperform votes than MongoDB when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.60% of users gave Splunk an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave MongoDB an outperform vote.
MongoDB has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Splunk has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
88.9% of MongoDB shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Splunk shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of MongoDB shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Splunk shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Splunk has higher revenue and earnings than MongoDB. MongoDB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Splunk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Splunk has a net margin of 6.26% compared to MongoDB's net margin of -10.49%. Splunk's return on equity of 32,117.42% beat MongoDB's return on equity.
Summary
Splunk beats MongoDB on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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