MGIC vs. IAC, ALKT, ALRM, DOCN, CERT, WRD, DV, APPN, MQ, and WB
Should you be buying Magic Software Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Magic Software Enterprises include IAC (IAC), Alkami Technology (ALKT), Alarm.com (ALRM), DigitalOcean (DOCN), Certara (CERT), WeRide (WRD), DoubleVerify (DV), Appian (APPN), Marqeta (MQ), and Weibo (WB). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Magic Software Enterprises vs.
IAC (NASDAQ:IAC) and Magic Software Enterprises (NASDAQ:MGIC) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Magic Software Enterprises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IAC. IAC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Magic Software Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IAC has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Magic Software Enterprises has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.9% of IAC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.7% of Magic Software Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. 20.5% of IAC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Magic Software Enterprises shares are held by company 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.
Magic Software Enterprises has a net margin of 6.49% compared to IAC's net margin of -14.18%. Magic Software Enterprises' return on equity of 15.42% beat IAC's return on equity.
IAC presently has a consensus price target of $62.15, indicating a potential upside of 75.01%. Magic Software Enterprises has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.70%. Given IAC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IAC is more favorable than Magic Software Enterprises.
In the previous week, IAC had 15 more articles in the media than Magic Software Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for IAC and 3 mentions for Magic Software Enterprises. Magic Software Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat IAC's score of 0.70 indicating that Magic Software Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IAC received 780 more outperform votes than Magic Software Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.57% of users gave IAC an outperform vote while only 61.37% of users gave Magic Software Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary
IAC beats Magic Software Enterprises on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MGIC) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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