U vs. DBX, NATI, MNDY, CDAY, PCTY, NTNX, ZI, GWRE, DSGX, and SMAR
Should you be buying Unity Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Software include Dropbox (DBX), National Instruments (NATI), monday.com (MNDY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Paylocity (PCTY), Nutanix (NTNX), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Guidewire Software (GWRE), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and Smartsheet (SMAR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Unity Software vs.
Unity Software (NYSE:U) and Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
82.5% of Unity Software shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.8% of Dropbox shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of Unity Software shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Dropbox shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dropbox has a net margin of 22.86% compared to Unity Software's net margin of -63.42%. Unity Software's return on equity of -23.63% beat Dropbox's return on equity.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than Unity Software. Unity Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dropbox, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Unity Software has a beta of 2.15, suggesting that its stock price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dropbox has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 10 more articles in the media than Dropbox. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Unity Software and 6 mentions for Dropbox. Dropbox's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Unity Software's score of -0.14 indicating that Dropbox is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Unity Software currently has a consensus target price of $40.06, indicating a potential upside of 29.23%. Dropbox has a consensus target price of $26.86, indicating a potential upside of 13.42%. Given Unity Software's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Dropbox.
Dropbox received 283 more outperform votes than Unity Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.90% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 54.03% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote.
Summary
Dropbox beats Unity Software on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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