LSPD vs. CFLT, DBX, SPSC, DUOL, ALTR, S, KVYO, INFA, PATH, and CCCS
Should you be buying Lightspeed Commerce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightspeed Commerce include Confluent (CFLT), Dropbox (DBX), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Duolingo (DUOL), Altair Engineering (ALTR), SentinelOne (S), Klaviyo (KVYO), Informatica (INFA), UiPath (PATH), and CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Lightspeed Commerce (NYSE:LSPD) and Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Lightspeed Commerce has a net margin of -18.03% compared to Confluent's net margin of -46.73%. Lightspeed Commerce's return on equity of -2.02% beat Confluent's return on equity.
68.7% of Lightspeed Commerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of Confluent shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Confluent shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Lightspeed Commerce currently has a consensus target price of $18.78, suggesting a potential upside of 41.83%. Confluent has a consensus target price of $32.93, suggesting a potential upside of 30.66%. Given Lightspeed Commerce's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lightspeed Commerce is more favorable than Confluent.
In the previous week, Lightspeed Commerce had 2 more articles in the media than Confluent. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Lightspeed Commerce and 9 mentions for Confluent. Lightspeed Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Confluent's score of 0.39 indicating that Lightspeed Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lightspeed Commerce has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lightspeed Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lightspeed Commerce has a beta of 2.33, suggesting that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Confluent has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lightspeed Commerce received 4 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.90% of users gave Lightspeed Commerce an outperform vote while only 46.49% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
Summary
Lightspeed Commerce beats Confluent on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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