SCWX vs. CGNT, DDD, LAW, BAND, MGIC, WEAV, BLZE, CRNC, BBAI, and MIXT
Should you be buying SecureWorks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SecureWorks include Cognyte Software (CGNT), 3D Systems (DDD), CS Disco (LAW), Bandwidth (BAND), Magic Software Enterprises (MGIC), Weave Communications (WEAV), Backblaze (BLZE), Cerence (CRNC), BigBear.ai (BBAI), and MiX Telematics (MIXT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Cognyte Software (NASDAQ:CGNT) and SecureWorks (NASDAQ:SCWX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Cognyte Software currently has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 2.92%. SecureWorks has a consensus price target of $7.08, indicating a potential upside of 8.97%. Given Cognyte Software's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SecureWorks is more favorable than Cognyte Software.
In the previous week, Cognyte Software had 3 more articles in the media than SecureWorks. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Cognyte Software and 2 mentions for SecureWorks. SecureWorks' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Cognyte Software's score of -0.53 indicating that Cognyte Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.9% of Cognyte Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.4% of SecureWorks shares are held by institutional investors. 83.1% of SecureWorks shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Cognyte Software has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SecureWorks has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SecureWorks received 89 more outperform votes than Cognyte Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave SecureWorks an outperform vote while only 56.40% of users gave Cognyte Software an outperform vote.
Cognyte Software has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SecureWorks. Cognyte Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SecureWorks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cognyte Software has a net margin of -4.97% compared to Cognyte Software's net margin of -23.52%. Cognyte Software's return on equity of -9.56% beat SecureWorks' return on equity.
Summary
Cognyte Software beats SecureWorks on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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