SWI vs. SPNS, ACIW, BLKB, SEMR, FSLY, PD, EVCM, BB, EVBG, and VTEX
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include Sapiens International (SPNS), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), Blackbaud (BLKB), Semrush (SEMR), Fastly (FSLY), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), BlackBerry (BB), Everbridge (EVBG), and VTEX (VTEX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Sapiens International (NASDAQ:SPNS) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
SolarWinds received 53 more outperform votes than Sapiens International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.87% of users gave Sapiens International an outperform vote while only 59.67% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
Sapiens International has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sapiens International had 2 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Sapiens International and 5 mentions for SolarWinds. Sapiens International's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.65 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sapiens International currently has a consensus target price of $34.33, indicating a potential upside of 9.69%. SolarWinds has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential upside of 21.40%. Given Sapiens International's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than Sapiens International.
Sapiens International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SolarWinds. SolarWinds is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sapiens International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
30.7% of Sapiens International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Sapiens International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sapiens International has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Sapiens International's net margin of -1.20%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 16.92% beat Sapiens International's return on equity.
Summary
Sapiens International beats SolarWinds on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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