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$5.83 +0.23 (+4.11%)
Closing price 08/22/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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CMCM vs. ECX, DH, PUBM, CANG, LZMH, OSPN, GCL, PERI, CCSI, and ARQQ

Should you be buying Cheetah Mobile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cheetah Mobile include ECARX (ECX), Definitive Healthcare (DH), PubMatic (PUBM), Cango (CANG), LZ Technology (LZMH), Onespan (OSPN), GCL Global (GCL), Perion Network (PERI), Consensus Cloud Solutions (CCSI), and Arqit Quantum (ARQQ). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Cheetah Mobile vs. Its Competitors

Cheetah Mobile (NYSE:CMCM) and ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) are both small-cap computer software companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.

Cheetah Mobile has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECARX. ECARX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheetah Mobile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cheetah Mobile$110.54M1.60-$84.60M-$2.65-2.20
ECARX$761.90M0.81-$127.73M-$0.35-4.77

Cheetah Mobile has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECARX has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

ECARX has a net margin of -14.60% compared to Cheetah Mobile's net margin of -64.75%. ECARX's return on equity of 0.00% beat Cheetah Mobile's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cheetah Mobile-64.75% -17.83% -7.16%
ECARX -14.60%N/A -21.52%

ECARX has a consensus target price of $3.20, indicating a potential upside of 91.62%. Given ECARX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than Cheetah Mobile.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cheetah Mobile
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
ECARX
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, ECARX had 1 more articles in the media than Cheetah Mobile. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ECARX and 2 mentions for Cheetah Mobile. Cheetah Mobile's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat ECARX's score of 0.43 indicating that Cheetah Mobile is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cheetah Mobile
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
ECARX
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

0.4% of Cheetah Mobile shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Cheetah Mobile shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of ECARX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ECARX beats Cheetah Mobile on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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CMCM vs. The Competition

MetricCheetah MobileINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$169.77M$19.09B$29.23B$20.92B
Dividend YieldN/A3.83%3.09%3.58%
P/E Ratio-2.2075.5854.4229.13
Price / Sales1.60192.081,252.1652.98
Price / CashN/A80.0735.2023.54
Price / Book0.6417.949.585.45
Net Income-$84.60M$346.10M$805.43M$992.10M
7 Day Performance16.39%2.64%1.55%2.61%
1 Month Performance0.52%-2.98%-0.64%1.46%
1 Year Performance49.87%54.93%24,052.27%10.72%

Cheetah Mobile Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CMCM
Cheetah Mobile
1.8091 of 5 stars
$5.83
+4.1%
N/A+47.6%$169.77M$110.54M-2.20850News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓
ECX
ECARX
1.91 of 5 stars
$1.53
-1.3%
$3.20
+109.2%
+0.6%$574.63M$761.90M-4.371,918Short Interest ↑
DH
Definitive Healthcare
1.1835 of 5 stars
$3.52
-8.8%
$4.73
+34.5%
-4.7%$573.76M$252.20M-1.33970
PUBM
PubMatic
3.9559 of 5 stars
$10.57
-3.3%
$18.17
+71.9%
-40.8%$530.40M$291.26M132.141,049Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
CANG
Cango
3.1002 of 5 stars
$4.91
-1.5%
$8.00
+63.1%
+185.1%$516.84M$110.21M-245.132,350Upcoming Earnings
LZMH
LZ Technology
N/A$2.71
-20.3%
N/AN/A$510MN/A0.0067Lockup Expiration
OSPN
Onespan
4.8199 of 5 stars
$13.07
+1.2%
$18.00
+37.7%
-7.6%$494.77M$243.18M8.66790Positive News
Dividend Announcement
GCL
GCL Global
N/A$3.51
-5.9%
N/AN/A$471.01M$142.07M0.00N/A
PERI
Perion Network
3.6453 of 5 stars
$9.19
-10.0%
$12.38
+34.7%
+10.2%$457.66M$498.29M-54.06420High Trading Volume
CCSI
Consensus Cloud Solutions
1.3018 of 5 stars
$24.94
+4.6%
$27.40
+9.9%
+28.1%$452.41M$350.38M6.01460Positive News
ARQQ
Arqit Quantum
2.4945 of 5 stars
$32.89
+1.7%
$52.00
+58.1%
+243.7%$412.06M$290K0.00140Positive News

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