PCTY vs. GWRE, INFA, U, GTLB, CDAY, S, ESTC, DAY, PAYC, and DBX
Should you be buying Paylocity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paylocity include Guidewire Software (GWRE), Informatica (INFA), Unity Software (U), GitLab (GTLB), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), SentinelOne (S), Elastic (ESTC), Dayforce (DAY), Paycom Software (PAYC), and Dropbox (DBX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) and Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Paylocity has a net margin of 12.96% compared to Guidewire Software's net margin of -5.48%. Paylocity's return on equity of 21.37% beat Guidewire Software's return on equity.
73.7% of Paylocity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.3% of Guidewire Software shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Paylocity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Guidewire Software shares are held 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.
Paylocity has higher revenue and earnings than Guidewire Software. Guidewire Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paylocity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paylocity had 12 more articles in the media than Guidewire Software. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Paylocity and 3 mentions for Guidewire Software. Paylocity's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Guidewire Software's score of 0.48 indicating that Paylocity is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paylocity received 125 more outperform votes than Guidewire Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.64% of users gave Paylocity an outperform vote while only 63.74% of users gave Guidewire Software an outperform vote.
Paylocity currently has a consensus target price of $207.47, indicating a potential upside of 23.02%. Guidewire Software has a consensus target price of $115.11, indicating a potential upside of 1.38%. Given Paylocity's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Paylocity is more favorable than Guidewire Software.
Paylocity has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guidewire Software has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Paylocity beats Guidewire Software on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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