CWAN vs. IOT, MDB, CHKP, PINS, ZM, PTC, GEN, NTNX, DT, and SNAP
Should you be buying Clearwater Analytics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Clearwater Analytics include Samsara (IOT), MongoDB (MDB), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Pinterest (PINS), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), PTC (PTC), Gen Digital (GEN), Nutanix (NTNX), Dynatrace (DT), and Snap (SNAP). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Clearwater Analytics (NYSE:CWAN) and Samsara (NYSE:IOT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Clearwater Analytics has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samsara has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Clearwater Analytics has a net margin of -1.14% compared to Samsara's net margin of -27.14%. Clearwater Analytics' return on equity of 3.55% beat Samsara's return on equity.
Clearwater Analytics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Samsara. Clearwater Analytics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Samsara, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Samsara had 50 more articles in the media than Clearwater Analytics. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Samsara and 7 mentions for Clearwater Analytics. Clearwater Analytics' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Samsara's score of 0.55 indicating that Clearwater Analytics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Samsara received 5 more outperform votes than Clearwater Analytics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 39.58% of users gave Samsara an outperform vote while only 38.82% of users gave Clearwater Analytics an outperform vote.
Clearwater Analytics presently has a consensus target price of $23.30, suggesting a potential downside of 2.14%. Samsara has a consensus target price of $42.07, suggesting a potential downside of 4.43%. Given Clearwater Analytics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Clearwater Analytics is more favorable than Samsara.
50.1% of Clearwater Analytics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.4% of Samsara shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Clearwater Analytics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.0% of Samsara shares are held 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.
Summary
Samsara beats Clearwater Analytics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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