NICE vs. BKI, CDAY, AVLR, NUAN, FIVN, SNOW, TEAM, DDOG, SQ, and EA
Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Black Knight (BKI), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Avalara (AVLR), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Five9 (FIVN), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Block (SQ), and Electronic Arts (EA).
Black Knight (NYSE:BKI) and NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Black Knight has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NICE. NICE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Knight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Black Knight has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NICE has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.6% of Black Knight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of NICE shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Black Knight shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of NICE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, NICE had 27 more articles in the media than Black Knight. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for NICE and 2 mentions for Black Knight. Black Knight's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat NICE's score of 0.00 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Black Knight has a net margin of 16.09% compared to Black Knight's net margin of 14.92%. Black Knight's return on equity of 14.05% beat NICE's return on equity.
NICE has a consensus target price of $269.64, indicating a potential upside of 48.98%. Given Black Knight's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NICE is more favorable than Black Knight.
NICE received 273 more outperform votes than Black Knight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.41% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Black Knight an outperform vote.
Summary
NICE beats Black Knight on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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