BOX vs. CWAN, CVLT, FROG, BL, WK, VERX, BLKB, TDC, SQSP, and ASAN
Should you be buying BOX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BOX include Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), Commvault Systems (CVLT), JFrog (FROG), BlackLine (BL), Workiva (WK), Vertex (VERX), Blackbaud (BLKB), Teradata (TDC), Squarespace (SQSP), and Asana (ASAN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Clearwater Analytics (NYSE:CWAN) and BOX (NYSE:BOX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Clearwater Analytics presently has a consensus price target of $21.77, indicating a potential upside of 24.63%. BOX has a consensus price target of $30.89, indicating a potential upside of 8.76%. Given BOX's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Clearwater Analytics is more favorable than BOX.
BOX has a net margin of 12.43% compared to BOX's net margin of -5.80%. BOX's return on equity of -0.44% beat Clearwater Analytics' return on equity.
Clearwater Analytics has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BOX had 6 more articles in the media than Clearwater Analytics. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for BOX and 5 mentions for Clearwater Analytics. BOX's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Clearwater Analytics' score of 0.52 indicating that Clearwater Analytics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BOX received 764 more outperform votes than Clearwater Analytics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.80% of users gave BOX an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Clearwater Analytics an outperform vote.
50.1% of Clearwater Analytics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Clearwater Analytics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of BOX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BOX has higher revenue and earnings than Clearwater Analytics. Clearwater Analytics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BOX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BOX beats Clearwater Analytics on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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