MSTR vs. SPLK, ANSS, TYL, MANH, SSNC, INFA, GWRE, CVLT, INST, and PRGS
Should you be buying MicroStrategy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MicroStrategy include Splunk (SPLK), ANSYS (ANSS), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Manhattan Associates (MANH), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Informatica (INFA), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Commvault Systems (CVLT), Instructure (INST), and Progress Software (PRGS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) and MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, MicroStrategy had 40 more articles in the media than Splunk. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for MicroStrategy and 26 mentions for Splunk. MicroStrategy's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Splunk's score of 0.42 indicating that Splunk is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MicroStrategy has a net margin of 86.47% compared to MicroStrategy's net margin of 6.26%. MicroStrategy's return on equity of 32,117.42% beat Splunk's return on equity.
Splunk has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, MicroStrategy has a beta of 2.82, suggesting that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Splunk presently has a consensus price target of $135.31, indicating a potential downside of 13.76%. MicroStrategy has a consensus price target of $684.20, indicating a potential downside of 54.47%. Given MicroStrategy's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Splunk is more favorable than MicroStrategy.
Splunk received 1391 more outperform votes than MicroStrategy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.60% of users gave Splunk an outperform vote while only 61.89% of users gave MicroStrategy an outperform vote.
87.6% of Splunk shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.4% of MicroStrategy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Splunk shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.8% of MicroStrategy shares are owned 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.
MicroStrategy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Splunk. MicroStrategy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Splunk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MicroStrategy beats Splunk on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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