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BBAI vs. PLTR, LNW, DBX, MTCH, PSN, OTEX, GTLB, WAY, BZ, and OS

Should you be buying BigBear.ai stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BigBear.ai include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Light & Wonder (LNW), Dropbox (DBX), Match Group (MTCH), Parsons (PSN), Open Text (OTEX), GitLab (GTLB), Waystar (WAY), KANZHUN (BZ), and OneStream (OS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

BigBear.ai vs. Its Competitors

BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.

Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 18.32% compared to BigBear.ai's net margin of -121.31%. Palantir Technologies' return on equity of 6.55% beat BigBear.ai's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BigBear.ai-121.31% -57.83% -15.71%
Palantir Technologies 18.32%6.55%5.27%

BigBear.ai currently has a consensus target price of $6.33, suggesting a potential downside of 5.33%. Palantir Technologies has a consensus target price of $89.32, suggesting a potential downside of 31.65%. Given BigBear.ai's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BigBear.ai is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
BigBear.ai
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Palantir Technologies
5 Sell rating(s)
14 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.96

7.6% of BigBear.ai shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of BigBear.ai shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BigBear.ai has a beta of 3.46, indicating that its stock price is 246% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.6, indicating that its stock price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Palantir Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than BigBear.ai. BigBear.ai is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BigBear.ai$158.24M12.31-$295.55M-$0.78-8.58
Palantir Technologies$2.87B107.62$462.19M$0.23568.17

In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 135 more articles in the media than BigBear.ai. MarketBeat recorded 176 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 41 mentions for BigBear.ai. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat BigBear.ai's score of 0.71 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
BigBear.ai
18 Very Positive mention(s)
14 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Palantir Technologies
105 Very Positive mention(s)
25 Positive mention(s)
36 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Palantir Technologies beats BigBear.ai on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BBAI vs. The Competition

MetricBigBear.aiIT Services IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.98B$17.54B$27.42B$20.43B
Dividend YieldN/A1.51%2.94%3.76%
P/E Ratio-8.5839.2135.8627.62
Price / Sales12.3112.581,989.8336.40
Price / Cash34.3025.7937.9921.79
Price / Book-669.004.936.994.52
Net Income-$295.55M$434.18M$762.33M$984.47M
7 Day Performance39.38%3.84%2.21%2.61%
1 Month Performance69.15%2.62%5.55%4.99%
1 Year Performance361.38%27.91%52,132.54%13.53%

BigBear.ai Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BBAI
BigBear.ai
0.7386 of 5 stars
$6.69
-1.5%
$6.33
-5.3%
+358.2%$1.98B$158.24M-8.58660Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
2.3695 of 5 stars
$137.39
+5.1%
$89.32
-35.0%
+405.0%$324.23B$2.87B597.353,936Trending News
LNW
Light & Wonder
3.6151 of 5 stars
$95.98
+0.2%
$106.55
+11.0%
-6.6%$8.10B$3.19B25.596,800Positive News
DBX
Dropbox
4.0281 of 5 stars
$28.50
+1.4%
$31.00
+8.8%
+22.9%$8.02B$2.55B18.632,204News Coverage
MTCH
Match Group
4.9867 of 5 stars
$30.85
flat
$35.96
+16.6%
+10.8%$7.73B$3.45B15.272,510
PSN
Parsons
2.7992 of 5 stars
$71.75
+1.7%
$85.30
+18.9%
-9.2%$7.67B$6.75B30.2719,600Trending News
OTEX
Open Text
4.6425 of 5 stars
$29.08
+1.4%
$32.30
+11.1%
-1.7%$7.46B$5.77B11.8722,900
GTLB
GitLab
3.7139 of 5 stars
$45.04
-0.2%
$63.59
+41.2%
-11.4%$7.44B$759.25M450.402,375Insider Trade
WAY
Waystar
3.5731 of 5 stars
$40.84
+2.7%
$41.36
+1.3%
N/A$7.07B$943.55M453.831,500Analyst Forecast
BZ
KANZHUN
1.9061 of 5 stars
$17.87
-1.4%
$18.50
+3.5%
-6.0%$6.96B$1.01B30.815,688
OS
OneStream
3.1033 of 5 stars
$28.61
+3.3%
$32.19
+12.5%
N/A$6.83B$489.41M0.001,500Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:BBAI) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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