NICE vs. BKI, CDAY, AVLR, NUAN, FIVN, PLTR, ADSK, TEAM, DDOG, and SQ
Should you be buying NICE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NICE include Black Knight (BKI), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Avalara (AVLR), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Five9 (FIVN), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), and Block (SQ).
Black Knight (NYSE:BKI) and NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Black Knight has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NICE. NICE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Knight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NICE received 260 more outperform votes than Black Knight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.98% of users gave NICE an outperform vote while only 67.54% of users gave Black Knight an outperform vote.
Black Knight has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NICE has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.6% of Black Knight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.3% of NICE shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Black Knight shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of NICE shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, NICE had 23 more articles in the media than Black Knight. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for NICE and 4 mentions for Black Knight. Black Knight's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat NICE's score of 0.00 indicating that NICE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Black Knight presently has a consensus target price of $75.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.00%. NICE has a consensus target price of $285.92, suggesting a potential upside of 55.76%. Given Black Knight's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NICE is more favorable than Black Knight.
Black Knight has a net margin of 16.09% compared to Black Knight's net margin of 14.92%. Black Knight's return on equity of 14.05% beat NICE's return on equity.
Summary
NICE beats Black Knight on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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