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WK vs. BL, SPT, HUBS, PD, MNDY, MBLY, YMM, PAYC, NBIS, and U

Should you be buying Workiva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workiva include BlackLine (BL), Sprout Social (SPT), HubSpot (HUBS), PagerDuty (PD), monday.com (MNDY), Mobileye Global (MBLY), Full Truck Alliance (YMM), Paycom Software (PAYC), Nebius Group (NBIS), and Unity Software (U). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Workiva vs. Its Competitors

Workiva (NYSE:WK) and BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL) 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 institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings and media sentiment.

92.2% of Workiva shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.1% of BlackLine shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Workiva shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of BlackLine shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

BlackLine has a net margin of 23.60% compared to Workiva's net margin of -8.41%. BlackLine's return on equity of 18.70% beat Workiva's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Workiva-8.41% N/A -4.44%
BlackLine 23.60%18.70%4.05%

Workiva has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackLine has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Workiva presently has a consensus target price of $101.30, suggesting a potential upside of 52.30%. BlackLine has a consensus target price of $60.31, suggesting a potential upside of 6.72%. Given Workiva's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Workiva is more favorable than BlackLine.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Workiva
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
BlackLine
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.46

In the previous week, BlackLine had 6 more articles in the media than Workiva. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for BlackLine and 6 mentions for Workiva. BlackLine's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Workiva's score of 0.75 indicating that BlackLine is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Workiva
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
BlackLine
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

BlackLine has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Workiva. Workiva is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackLine, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Workiva$738.68M5.02-$55.04M-$1.17-56.85
BlackLine$653.34M5.39$165.81M$1.3840.95

Summary

BlackLine beats Workiva on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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WK vs. The Competition

MetricWorkivaINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.77B$18.40B$28.86B$21.15B
Dividend YieldN/A2.77%3.00%3.58%
P/E Ratio-56.8576.4234.0627.76
Price / Sales5.0271.961,792.5758.69
Price / CashN/A94.9738.6523.00
Price / Book-88.688.737.824.67
Net Income-$55.04M$341.62M$781.95M$993.85M
7 Day Performance0.18%2.12%1.29%1.16%
1 Month Performance-0.96%10.66%7.09%4.99%
1 Year Performance-7.94%62.59%52,962.36%12.54%

Workiva Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WK
Workiva
3.9002 of 5 stars
$66.51
-1.7%
$101.30
+52.3%
-7.0%$3.77B$738.68M-56.852,828News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
BL
BlackLine
3.8159 of 5 stars
$54.74
+2.0%
$60.54
+10.6%
+19.7%$3.41B$653.34M39.671,830Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
SPT
Sprout Social
2.0399 of 5 stars
$19.34
+2.6%
$30.00
+55.1%
-49.4%$1.13B$405.91M-18.601,140
HUBS
HubSpot
4.851 of 5 stars
$538.95
+2.8%
$764.93
+41.9%
+15.1%$28.42B$2.63B-1,197.668,246Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PD
PagerDuty
4.0018 of 5 stars
$14.95
+0.5%
$19.50
+30.5%
-29.2%$1.36B$467.50M-37.361,242Positive News
MNDY
monday.com
3.9104 of 5 stars
$290.92
+2.2%
$349.23
+20.0%
+23.1%$14.77B$1.04B296.862,508Positive News
MBLY
Mobileye Global
2.8016 of 5 stars
$16.57
+2.9%
$19.70
+18.9%
-30.9%$13.45B$1.85B-4.503,900Earnings Report
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
YMM
Full Truck Alliance
3.9182 of 5 stars
$12.70
+0.6%
$15.00
+18.2%
+49.4%$13.28B$1.54B25.397,185
PAYC
Paycom Software
4.4692 of 5 stars
$222.05
+0.8%
$226.90
+2.2%
+43.1%$12.85B$1.88B31.687,306Positive News
NBIS
Nebius Group
3.3336 of 5 stars
$51.95
+17.3%
$66.80
+28.6%
N/A$12.25B$161.40M-91.141,371Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
U
Unity Software
2.762 of 5 stars
$29.30
+1.3%
$24.80
-15.4%
+97.0%$12.18B$1.81B-26.164,987Analyst Forecast

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