INST vs. MQ, ZETA, CXM, NABL, CLBT, LSPD, COUR, MTTR, AVPT, and BRZE
Should you be buying Instructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Instructure include Marqeta (MQ), Zeta Global (ZETA), Sprinklr (CXM), N-able (NABL), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), Coursera (COUR), Matterport (MTTR), AvePoint (AVPT), and Braze (BRZE). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and Instructure (NYSE:INST) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Instructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marqeta. Instructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marqeta, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Instructure received 336 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.12% of users gave Instructure an outperform vote while only 50.88% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Instructure has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Instructure has a net margin of -6.43% compared to Instructure's net margin of -32.97%. Marqeta's return on equity of 7.03% beat Instructure's return on equity.
78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Instructure shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of Marqeta shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Instructure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Instructure had 1 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Instructure and 3 mentions for Marqeta. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Instructure's score of 0.20 indicating that Instructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marqeta presently has a consensus price target of $7.57, suggesting a potential upside of 37.41%. Instructure has a consensus price target of $29.67, suggesting a potential upside of 50.98%. Given Marqeta's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Instructure is more favorable than Marqeta.
Summary
Instructure beats Marqeta on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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