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ESTC vs. DDOG, TEAM, ZS, CRM, DT, HUBS, NET, NOW, PATH, and PD

Should you be buying Elastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elastic include Datadog (DDOG), Atlassian (TEAM), Zscaler (ZS), Salesforce (CRM), Dynatrace (DT), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), ServiceNow (NOW), UiPath (PATH), and PagerDuty (PD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Elastic vs. Its Competitors

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.

In the previous week, Datadog had 9 more articles in the media than Elastic. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Datadog and 27 mentions for Elastic. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Elastic's score of 0.40 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Elastic
9 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Datadog
18 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Elastic has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Datadog shares are held 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.

Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than Elastic. Elastic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Elastic$1.48B5.84-$108.11M-$0.80-101.84
Datadog$2.68B21.32$183.75M$0.35468.77

Elastic currently has a consensus target price of $118.60, suggesting a potential upside of 45.57%. Datadog has a consensus target price of $158.46, suggesting a potential downside of 3.42%. Given Elastic's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than Datadog.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Elastic
1 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
Datadog
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
24 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.73

Datadog has a net margin of 4.13% compared to Elastic's net margin of -5.38%. Datadog's return on equity of 5.04% beat Elastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Elastic-5.38% -1.68% -0.62%
Datadog 4.13%5.04%2.59%

Summary

Datadog beats Elastic on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ESTC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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ESTC vs. The Competition

MetricElasticINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$8.84B$19.82B$33.21B$22.09B
Dividend YieldN/A3.49%3.17%3.59%
P/E Ratio-101.8477.13495.9729.58
Price / Sales5.84109.481,679.3365.15
Price / Cash170.8284.6238.1624.53
Price / Book9.189.537.774.61
Net Income-$108.11M$354.27M$819.59M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-7.00%1.17%1.80%-0.46%
1 Month Performance-10.62%6.04%9.31%2.30%
1 Year Performance2.01%98.14%23,975.63%14.51%

Elastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESTC
Elastic
3.3696 of 5 stars
$81.48
-2.1%
$118.60
+45.6%
+8.8%$8.84B$1.48B-101.843,537News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Buyback Announcement
DDOG
Datadog
4.079 of 5 stars
$151.57
-0.7%
$156.00
+2.9%
+32.7%$52.86B$2.68B433.076,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
TEAM
Atlassian
4.627 of 5 stars
$151.05
+1.0%
$248.74
+64.7%
-11.0%$39.62B$5.22B-152.5713,813Trending News
Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
ZS
Zscaler
3.4527 of 5 stars
$307.58
+1.0%
$307.43
0.0%
+77.4%$48.69B$2.67B-1,139.197,923Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CRM
Salesforce
4.9899 of 5 stars
$239.01
+1.4%
$332.58
+39.2%
-17.6%$227.53B$37.90B34.7476,453Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
DT
Dynatrace
4.9668 of 5 stars
$49.87
+3.2%
$62.52
+25.4%
-9.1%$15.04B$1.70B30.605,200Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.6868 of 5 stars
$445.64
+1.2%
$723.11
+62.3%
-13.7%$23.48B$2.63B-1,937.588,246Insider Trade
NET
Cloudflare
3.7338 of 5 stars
$224.70
+3.5%
$191.28
-14.9%
+169.0%$78.30B$1.67B-660.884,263Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
NOW
ServiceNow
4.9654 of 5 stars
$909.88
-0.3%
$1,122.20
+23.3%
-0.9%$189.26B$10.98B114.5926,293Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PATH
UiPath
2.1127 of 5 stars
$12.76
-1.8%
$13.21
+3.6%
+28.1%$6.77B$1.43B425.173,868Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
Gap Up
PD
PagerDuty
2.9253 of 5 stars
$16.49
+1.1%
$18.70
+13.4%
-8.8%$1.54B$467.50M-103.091,242News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up

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