PAYC vs. DAY, MNDY, CYBR, CDAY, TWLO, U, INFA, PCTY, GWRE, and GTLB
Should you be buying Paycom Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paycom Software include Dayforce (DAY), monday.com (MNDY), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Twilio (TWLO), Unity Software (U), Informatica (INFA), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC) and Dayforce (NYSE:DAY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
Paycom Software has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Dayforce's net margin of 3.62%. Paycom Software's return on equity of 24.60% beat Dayforce's return on equity.
Paycom Software has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dayforce has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.7% of Paycom Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.5% of Paycom Software shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Dayforce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Paycom Software had 7 more articles in the media than Dayforce. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Paycom Software and 2 mentions for Dayforce. Paycom Software's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Dayforce's score of 0.34 indicating that Paycom Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paycom Software presently has a consensus target price of $262.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.91%. Dayforce has a consensus target price of $77.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.94%. Given Paycom Software's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Paycom Software is more favorable than Dayforce.
Paycom Software has higher revenue and earnings than Dayforce. Paycom Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dayforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paycom Software received 684 more outperform votes than Dayforce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.61% of users gave Paycom Software an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Dayforce an outperform vote.
Summary
Paycom Software beats Dayforce on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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