BB vs. FSLY, SPNS, EVCM, SEMR, SWI, PD, EVBG, ZUO, DCBO, and VTEX
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Fastly (FSLY), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), Semrush (SEMR), SolarWinds (SWI), PagerDuty (PD), Everbridge (EVBG), Zuora (ZUO), Docebo (DCBO), and VTEX (VTEX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) and Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
BlackBerry currently has a consensus target price of $4.08, suggesting a potential upside of 44.29%. Fastly has a consensus target price of $18.56, suggesting a potential upside of 43.34%. Given BlackBerry's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than Fastly.
54.5% of BlackBerry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Fastly shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
BlackBerry has higher revenue and earnings than Fastly. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackBerry, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackBerry has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fastly had 9 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Fastly and 1 mentions for BlackBerry. BlackBerry's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Fastly's score of 0.29 indicating that BlackBerry is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackBerry received 617 more outperform votes than Fastly when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 51.22% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
BlackBerry has a net margin of -15.24% compared to Fastly's net margin of -26.30%. BlackBerry's return on equity of -0.24% beat Fastly's return on equity.
Summary
BlackBerry beats Fastly on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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