COUR vs. NABL, LSPD, INST, CXM, AMPL, CLBT, MLNK, AVPT, MTTR, and NYAX
Should you be buying Coursera stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coursera include N-able (NABL), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Instructure (INST), Sprinklr (CXM), Amplitude (AMPL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), MeridianLink (MLNK), AvePoint (AVPT), Matterport (MTTR), and Nayax (NYAX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Coursera vs.
N-able (NYSE:NABL) and Coursera (NYSE:COUR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Coursera received 54 more outperform votes than N-able when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave Coursera an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave N-able an outperform vote.
97.3% of N-able shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of N-able shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Coursera shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
N-able has a net margin of 3.88% compared to N-able's net margin of -26.19%. Coursera's return on equity of 3.76% beat N-able's return on equity.
N-able currently has a consensus price target of $15.13, indicating a potential upside of 14.58%. Coursera has a consensus price target of $18.78, indicating a potential upside of 6.81%. Given Coursera's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe N-able is more favorable than Coursera.
N-able has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coursera has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Coursera had 10 more articles in the media than N-able. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Coursera and 2 mentions for N-able. Coursera's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat N-able's score of 0.15 indicating that N-able is being referred to more favorably in the media.
N-able has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Coursera. Coursera is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than N-able, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
N-able beats Coursera on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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