BLND vs. INST, DV, DOCN, GDS, INTA, ALKT, BL, DJT, ALRM, and FROG
Should you be buying Blend Labs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blend Labs include Instructure (INST), DoubleVerify (DV), DigitalOcean (DOCN), GDS (GDS), Intapp (INTA), Alkami Technology (ALKT), BlackLine (BL), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), Alarm.com (ALRM), and JFrog (FROG). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Instructure (NYSE:INST) and Blend Labs (NYSE:BLND) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Instructure has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blend Labs has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure has higher revenue and earnings than Blend Labs. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blend Labs, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Instructure and Instructure both had 5 articles in the media. Blend Labs' average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Instructure's score of 0.11 indicating that Blend Labs is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Instructure received 370 more outperform votes than Blend Labs when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.27% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 39.44% of users gave Blend Labs an outperform vote.
97.1% of Instructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Blend Labs shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Instructure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Blend Labs shares are owned 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.
Instructure has a net margin of -8.94% compared to Blend Labs' net margin of -77.63%. Instructure's return on equity of 7.61% beat Blend Labs' return on equity.
Instructure currently has a consensus target price of $27.36, suggesting a potential upside of 16.36%. Blend Labs has a consensus target price of $3.93, suggesting a potential upside of 12.13%. Given Instructure's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Instructure is more favorable than Blend Labs.
Summary
Instructure beats Blend Labs on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Blend Labs News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for BLND and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BLND and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Blend Labs Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
Free BLND Stock Alerts