SPNS vs. ACIW, SWI, BLKB, PLUS, NTCT, VRNT, PRO, DMRC, SNCR, and VHC
Should you be buying Sapiens International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sapiens International include ACI Worldwide (ACIW), SolarWinds (SWI), Blackbaud (BLKB), ePlus (PLUS), NetScout Systems (NTCT), Verint Systems (VRNT), PROS (PRO), Digimarc (DMRC), Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), and VirnetX (VHC). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Sapiens International vs. Its Competitors
ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW) and Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.7% of Sapiens International shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of ACI Worldwide shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are held by company 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.
ACI Worldwide has a net margin of 14.04% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of 13.31%. ACI Worldwide's return on equity of 21.67% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
ACI Worldwide presently has a consensus price target of $60.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.50%. Sapiens International has a consensus price target of $34.25, indicating a potential upside of 17.05%. Given ACI Worldwide's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ACI Worldwide is more favorable than Sapiens International.
ACI Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Sapiens International. ACI Worldwide is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sapiens International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ACI Worldwide received 6 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.98% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 63.16% of users gave ACI Worldwide an outperform vote.
ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sapiens International has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ACI Worldwide had 10 more articles in the media than Sapiens International. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for ACI Worldwide and 7 mentions for Sapiens International. ACI Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Sapiens International's score of 0.77 indicating that ACI Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Sapiens International on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SPNS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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