OKTA vs. BSY, SSNC, NTNX, MANH, NICE, TYL, DT, CHKP, TWLO, and PAYC
Should you be buying Okta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Okta include Bentley Systems (BSY), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Nutanix (NTNX), Manhattan Associates (MANH), NICE (NICE), Tyler Technologies (TYL), Dynatrace (DT), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Twilio (TWLO), and Paycom Software (PAYC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) and Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
Okta presently has a consensus target price of $100.39, suggesting a potential upside of 8.02%. Bentley Systems has a consensus target price of $58.44, suggesting a potential upside of 7.49%. Given Okta's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Okta is more favorable than Bentley Systems.
Bentley Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Okta. Okta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bentley Systems has a net margin of 26.60% compared to Okta's net margin of -15.69%. Bentley Systems' return on equity of 33.87% beat Okta's return on equity.
Okta has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Bentley Systems has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bentley Systems had 1 more articles in the media than Okta. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Bentley Systems and 11 mentions for Okta. Bentley Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Okta's score of 0.64 indicating that Bentley Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
86.6% of Okta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of Okta shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Okta received 476 more outperform votes than Bentley Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.36% of users gave Bentley Systems an outperform vote while only 59.55% of users gave Okta an outperform vote.
Summary
Bentley Systems beats Okta on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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