PRFT vs. PRO, DAVA, FORTY, PERI, GAN, HCP, ACMR, EVCM, BB, and MRCY
Should you be buying Perficient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Perficient include PROS (PRO), Endava (DAVA), Formula Systems (1985) (FORTY), Perion Network (PERI), GAN (GAN), HashiCorp (HCP), ACM Research (ACMR), EverCommerce (EVCM), BlackBerry (BB), and Mercury Systems (MRCY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
PROS (NYSE:PRO) and Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
PROS currently has a consensus target price of $40.20, suggesting a potential upside of 16.12%. Perficient has a consensus target price of $69.67, suggesting a potential upside of 54.51%. Given PROS's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Perficient is more favorable than PROS.
Perficient has higher revenue and earnings than PROS. PROS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perficient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PROS had 22 more articles in the media than Perficient. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for PROS and 10 mentions for Perficient. PROS's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Perficient's score of 0.30 indicating that Perficient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.3% of PROS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.0% of Perficient shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of PROS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Perficient shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PROS received 150 more outperform votes than Perficient when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.66% of users gave PROS an outperform vote while only 66.45% of users gave Perficient an outperform vote.
PROS has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perficient has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Perficient has a net margin of 10.91% compared to Perficient's net margin of -18.56%. PROS's return on equity of 23.39% beat Perficient's return on equity.
Summary
Perficient beats PROS on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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