NICE vs. TWLO, BSY, SSNC, MANH, XM, OKTA, BILL, DT, CHKP, and ZI
Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Twilio (TWLO), Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Manhattan Associates (MANH), Qualtrics International (XM), Okta (OKTA), BILL (BILL), Dynatrace (DT), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), and ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
NICE vs.
NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) and Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
NICE presently has a consensus price target of $251.33, indicating a potential upside of 16.61%. Twilio has a consensus price target of $79.11, indicating a potential upside of 20.45%. Given Twilio's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Twilio is more favorable than NICE.
NICE has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twilio has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NICE has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Twilio. Twilio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NICE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NICE has a net margin of 12.80% compared to Twilio's net margin of -34.79%. NICE's return on equity of 12.44% beat Twilio's return on equity.
Twilio received 82 more outperform votes than NICE when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.23% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 66.86% of users gave Twilio an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NICE had 25 more articles in the media than Twilio. MarketBeat recorded 47 mentions for NICE and 22 mentions for Twilio. NICE's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Twilio's score of 0.34 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.9% of NICE shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.7% of Twilio shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of NICE shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Twilio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
NICE beats Twilio on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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