DAY vs. TTD, WIT, BIDU, SRAD, HUBS, GDDY, CHKP, ZM, PINS, and IOT
Should you be buying Dayforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dayforce include Trade Desk (TTD), Wipro (WIT), Baidu (BIDU), Sportradar Group (SRAD), HubSpot (HUBS), GoDaddy (GDDY), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Zoom Communications (ZM), Pinterest (PINS), and Samsara (IOT). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Dayforce vs. Its Competitors
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Dayforce (NYSE:DAY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dayforce has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 16.04% compared to Dayforce's net margin of 1.43%. Trade Desk's return on equity of 15.41% beat Dayforce's return on equity.
Trade Desk has higher revenue and earnings than Dayforce. Trade Desk is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dayforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trade Desk currently has a consensus price target of $97.27, suggesting a potential upside of 32.36%. Dayforce has a consensus price target of $70.86, suggesting a potential upside of 25.39%. Given Trade Desk's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Dayforce.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Trade Desk shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Dayforce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 35 more articles in the media than Dayforce. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for Trade Desk and 15 mentions for Dayforce. Trade Desk's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Dayforce's score of 0.31 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Dayforce on 15 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NYSE:DAY) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
