BILL vs. QLYS, ZI, DSGX, APPF, DBX, SMAR, S, FRSH, TENB, and VRNS
Should you be buying BILL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BILL include Qualys (QLYS), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), AppFolio (APPF), Dropbox (DBX), Smartsheet (SMAR), SentinelOne (S), Freshworks (FRSH), Tenable (TENB), and Varonis Systems (VRNS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BILL (NYSE:BILL) and Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
95.9% of Qualys shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of BILL shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Qualys shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BILL had 137 more articles in the media than Qualys. MarketBeat recorded 143 mentions for BILL and 6 mentions for Qualys. Qualys' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat BILL's score of -0.06 indicating that Qualys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Qualys has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BILL. BILL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qualys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Qualys has a net margin of 27.34% compared to BILL's net margin of -9.67%. Qualys' return on equity of 49.06% beat BILL's return on equity.
BILL presently has a consensus target price of $107.10, indicating a potential upside of 57.70%. Qualys has a consensus target price of $150.15, indicating a potential downside of 9.74%. Given BILL's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BILL is more favorable than Qualys.
BILL has a beta of 1.66, suggesting that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qualys has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Qualys received 363 more outperform votes than BILL when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.14% of users gave Qualys an outperform vote while only 56.54% of users gave BILL an outperform vote.
Summary
Qualys beats BILL on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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