DOCU vs. TWLO, SPLK, PLTR, ADSK, TEAM, DDOG, SQ, EA, VEEV, and HUBS
Should you be buying DocuSign stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DocuSign include Twilio (TWLO), Splunk (SPLK), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Block (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), and HubSpot (HUBS).
DocuSign (NASDAQ:DOCU) and Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Twilio received 299 more outperform votes than DocuSign when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.11% of users gave Twilio an outperform vote while only 59.71% of users gave DocuSign an outperform vote.
DocuSign has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twilio has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DocuSign had 9 more articles in the media than Twilio. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for DocuSign and 9 mentions for Twilio. DocuSign's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Twilio's score of 0.64 indicating that DocuSign is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DocuSign presently has a consensus target price of $60.25, indicating a potential upside of 10.07%. Twilio has a consensus target price of $69.95, indicating a potential upside of 21.86%. Given Twilio's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Twilio is more favorable than DocuSign.
DocuSign has a net margin of 2.68% compared to Twilio's net margin of -17.37%. DocuSign's return on equity of 13.91% beat Twilio's return on equity.
77.6% of DocuSign shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of Twilio shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of DocuSign shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Twilio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
DocuSign has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Twilio. Twilio is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DocuSign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DocuSign and Twilio tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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