U vs. GWRE, PCTY, DAY, CDAY, GTLB, CYBR, INFA, DBX, DSGX, and APPF
Should you be buying Unity Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unity Software include Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paylocity (PCTY), Dayforce (DAY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), GitLab (GTLB), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Informatica (INFA), Dropbox (DBX), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), and AppFolio (APPF). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) and Unity Software (NYSE:U) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
73.5% of Unity Software shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Guidewire Software shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Unity Software shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Guidewire Software currently has a consensus price target of $115.11, suggesting a potential upside of 1.42%. Unity Software has a consensus price target of $37.03, suggesting a potential upside of 57.18%. Given Guidewire Software's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Unity Software is more favorable than Guidewire Software.
Guidewire Software received 324 more outperform votes than Unity Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.74% of users gave Guidewire Software an outperform vote while only 48.81% of users gave Unity Software an outperform vote.
Guidewire Software has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unity Software has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guidewire Software has a net margin of -5.48% compared to Guidewire Software's net margin of -37.64%. Unity Software's return on equity of -3.60% beat Guidewire Software's return on equity.
In the previous week, Unity Software had 2 more articles in the media than Guidewire Software. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Unity Software and 6 mentions for Guidewire Software. Unity Software's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Guidewire Software's score of 0.55 indicating that Guidewire Software is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guidewire Software has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Unity Software. Guidewire Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unity Software, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Guidewire Software beats Unity Software on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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