MTLS vs. PRCH, CTV, DOMO, AMSWA, ONTF, MIXT, CRNC, BLZE, RDVT, and CCSI
Should you be buying Materialise stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Materialise include Porch Group (PRCH), Innovid (CTV), Domo (DOMO), American Software (AMSWA), ON24 (ONTF), MiX Telematics (MIXT), Cerence (CRNC), Backblaze (BLZE), Red Violet (RDVT), and Consensus Cloud Solutions (CCSI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Materialise (NASDAQ:MTLS) and Porch Group (NASDAQ:PRCH) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Materialise has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Porch Group. Porch Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Materialise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Materialise has a net margin of 2.55% compared to Porch Group's net margin of -31.12%. Materialise's return on equity of 4.51% beat Porch Group's return on equity.
19.3% of Materialise shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.5% of Porch Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.0% of Porch Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Materialise currently has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 88.42%. Porch Group has a consensus price target of $7.19, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. Given Porch Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Porch Group is more favorable than Materialise.
Materialise has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Porch Group has a beta of 2.22, suggesting that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Porch Group had 1 more articles in the media than Materialise. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Porch Group and 1 mentions for Materialise. Materialise's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Porch Group's score of 0.48 indicating that Materialise is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Materialise received 283 more outperform votes than Porch Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.91% of users gave Porch Group an outperform vote while only 62.26% of users gave Materialise an outperform vote.
Summary
Materialise beats Porch Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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