FSLY vs. BRZE, ZI, QTWO, BLKB, WK, BOX, FROG, FRSH, NCNO, and ASAN
Should you be buying Fastly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fastly include Braze (BRZE), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Q2 (QTWO), Blackbaud (BLKB), Workiva (WK), BOX (BOX), JFrog (FROG), Freshworks (FRSH), nCino (NCNO), and Asana (ASAN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE) and Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Braze has a net margin of -25.06% compared to Braze's net margin of -25.26%. Braze's return on equity of -15.82% beat Fastly's return on equity.
Braze has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.5% of Braze shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are held by institutional investors. 24.0% of Braze shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Fastly shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Fastly had 7 more articles in the media than Braze. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Fastly and 11 mentions for Braze. Fastly's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Braze's score of 0.16 indicating that Braze is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Braze currently has a consensus target price of $61.13, suggesting a potential upside of 42.48%. Fastly has a consensus target price of $13.69, suggesting a potential upside of 66.82%. Given Braze's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fastly is more favorable than Braze.
Braze has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fastly. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fastly, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fastly received 45 more outperform votes than Braze when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.94% of users gave Braze an outperform vote while only 50.60% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote.
Summary
Fastly beats Braze on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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