SSTI vs. DM, EGAN, NNBR, TWIN, IPAX, RDVT, EOSE, EML, MKFG, and QUAD
Should you be buying SoundThinking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundThinking include Desktop Metal (DM), eGain (EGAN), NN (NNBR), Twin Disc (TWIN), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Red Violet (RDVT), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Eastern (EML), Markforged (MKFG), and Quad/Graphics (QUAD).
Desktop Metal (NYSE:DM) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
53.7% of Desktop Metal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of SoundThinking shares are held by institutional investors. 13.9% of Desktop Metal shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are held by company 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.
SoundThinking has a net margin of -2.93% compared to SoundThinking's net margin of -170.41%. Desktop Metal's return on equity of -12.28% beat SoundThinking's return on equity.
Desktop Metal presently has a consensus price target of $1.25, indicating a potential upside of 88.91%. SoundThinking has a consensus price target of $37.14, indicating a potential upside of 147.12%. Given Desktop Metal's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SoundThinking is more favorable than Desktop Metal.
Desktop Metal received 17 more outperform votes than SoundThinking when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.54% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote while only 57.81% of users gave Desktop Metal an outperform vote.
Desktop Metal has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SoundThinking has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Desktop Metal. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Desktop Metal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Desktop Metal had 8 more articles in the media than SoundThinking. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Desktop Metal and 7 mentions for SoundThinking. Desktop Metal's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat SoundThinking's score of 0.01 indicating that SoundThinking is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SoundThinking beats Desktop Metal on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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