HUBS vs. SHOP, PLTR, TTD, SNOW, DDOG, BIDU, VEEV, PINS, NET, and RBLX
Should you be buying HubSpot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HubSpot include Shopify (SHOP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Trade Desk (TTD), Snowflake (SNOW), Datadog (DDOG), Baidu (BIDU), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Pinterest (PINS), Cloudflare (NET), and Roblox (RBLX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) and HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Shopify has higher revenue and earnings than HubSpot. Shopify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HubSpot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Shopify had 6 more articles in the media than HubSpot. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Shopify and 18 mentions for HubSpot. Shopify's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat HubSpot's score of 0.54 indicating that HubSpot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shopify received 529 more outperform votes than HubSpot when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.75% of users gave HubSpot an outperform vote while only 66.81% of users gave Shopify an outperform vote.
69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.4% of HubSpot shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of HubSpot shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shopify has a net margin of -2.82% compared to Shopify's net margin of -5.78%. HubSpot's return on equity of 7.36% beat Shopify's return on equity.
Shopify currently has a consensus target price of $77.62, indicating a potential upside of 29.54%. HubSpot has a consensus target price of $633.88, indicating a potential upside of 28.65%. Given HubSpot's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Shopify is more favorable than HubSpot.
Shopify has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HubSpot has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Shopify beats HubSpot on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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