ASAN vs. PYCR, QTWO, SPT, SVFCX, ACIW, RPD, APPN, NCNO, TDC, and AI
Should you be buying Asana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asana include Paycor HCM (PYCR), Q2 (QTWO), Sprout Social (SPT), Smead Value C (SVFCX), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Rapid7 (RPD), Appian (APPN), nCino (NCNO), Teradata (TDC), and C3.ai (AI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Asana (NYSE:ASAN) and Paycor HCM (NASDAQ:PYCR) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
Asana received 40 more outperform votes than Paycor HCM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 43.40% of users gave Asana an outperform vote while only 33.72% of users gave Paycor HCM an outperform vote.
Asana currently has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 37.05%. Paycor HCM has a consensus target price of $27.35, indicating a potential upside of 53.15%. Given Paycor HCM's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paycor HCM is more favorable than Asana.
Asana has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paycor HCM has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Paycor HCM has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Asana. Paycor HCM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paycor HCM has a net margin of -13.82% compared to Asana's net margin of -39.39%. Paycor HCM's return on equity of 1.28% beat Asana's return on equity.
In the previous week, Asana had 16 more articles in the media than Paycor HCM. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Asana and 4 mentions for Paycor HCM. Paycor HCM's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Asana's score of 0.17 indicating that Paycor HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
26.2% of Asana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of Paycor HCM shares are held by institutional investors. 63.3% of Asana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Paycor HCM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Paycor HCM beats Asana on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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