BB vs. FSLY, EVCM, SPNS, VTEX, DCBO, SEMR, SWI, SOUN, OPRA, and EVBG
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include Fastly (FSLY), EverCommerce (EVCM), Sapiens International (SPNS), VTEX (VTEX), Docebo (DCBO), Semrush (SEMR), SolarWinds (SWI), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Opera (OPRA), and Everbridge (EVBG). 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 better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
BlackBerry has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
42.7% of BlackBerry shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of Fastly shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fastly has a net margin of -26.30% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -68.47%. BlackBerry's return on equity of -4.27% beat Fastly's return on equity.
BlackBerry presently has a consensus price target of $4.08, indicating a potential upside of 54.38%. Fastly has a consensus price target of $20.56, indicating a potential upside of 61.46%. Given Fastly's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fastly is more favorable than BlackBerry.
Fastly has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BlackBerry. 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 received 619 more outperform votes than Fastly when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.09% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 51.03% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fastly had 5 more articles in the media than BlackBerry. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Fastly and 7 mentions for BlackBerry. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.26 indicating that Fastly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fastly beats BlackBerry on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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