VERX vs. MSP, SAIL, VRNS, ACIW, ALTR, PTC, MBLY, ZM, GEN, and OKTA
Should you be buying Vertex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vertex include Datto (MSP), SailPoint Technologies (SAIL), Varonis Systems (VRNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Altair Engineering (ALTR), PTC (PTC), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Gen Digital (GEN), and Okta (OKTA).
Datto (NYSE:MSP) and Vertex (NASDAQ:VERX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
88.9% of Datto shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.1% of Vertex shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Datto shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 45.0% of Vertex shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Datto received 49 more outperform votes than Vertex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 41.25% of users gave Vertex an outperform vote while only 35.65% of users gave Datto an outperform vote.
Vertex has a consensus price target of $36.80, suggesting a potential downside of 5.35%. Given Datto's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vertex is more favorable than Datto.
Datto has higher revenue and earnings than Vertex. Datto is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Vertex had 14 more articles in the media than Datto. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Vertex and 3 mentions for Datto. Datto's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Vertex's score of 0.48 indicating that Vertex is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Datto has a net margin of 6.84% compared to Datto's net margin of 1.29%. Datto's return on equity of 18.67% beat Vertex's return on equity.
Datto has a beta of -0.27, suggesting that its stock price is 127% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertex has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vertex beats Datto on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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