U vs. PAYC, DAY, CYBR, MNDY, CDAY, TWLO, GWRE, INFA, PCTY, and GTLB
Should you be buying Unity Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Software include Paycom Software (PAYC), Dayforce (DAY), CyberArk Software (CYBR), monday.com (MNDY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Twilio (TWLO), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Informatica (INFA), Paylocity (PCTY), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Unity Software (NYSE:U) and Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and risk.
Unity Software has a beta of 2.44, suggesting that its share price is 144% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paycom Software has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paycom Software received 603 more outperform votes than Unity Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.61% of users gave Paycom Software an outperform vote while only 48.81% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote.
Paycom Software has a net margin of 20.12% compared to Unity Software's net margin of -37.64%. Paycom Software's return on equity of 24.60% beat Unity Software's return on equity.
Unity Software currently has a consensus price target of $37.03, suggesting a potential upside of 42.05%. Paycom Software has a consensus price target of $262.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.91%. Given Unity Software's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Paycom Software.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 3 more articles in the media than Paycom Software. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Unity Software and 8 mentions for Paycom Software. Paycom Software's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Unity Software's score of 0.95 indicating that Paycom Software is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paycom Software has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Unity Software. Unity Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paycom Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.7% of Unity Software shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of Paycom Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of Unity Software shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.5% of Paycom Software shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Paycom Software beats Unity Software on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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