TWOU vs. FAAS, SKIL, WIMI, UPLD, RCAT, AUID, AIXI, MAQC, WFCF, and ARQQ
Should you be buying 2U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of 2U include DigiAsia (FAAS), Skillsoft (SKIL), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), Upland Software (UPLD), Red Cat (RCAT), authID (AUID), Xiao-I (AIXI), Maquia Capital Acquisition (MAQC), Where Food Comes From (WFCF), and Arqit Quantum (ARQQ). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
DigiAsia (NASDAQ:FAAS) and 2U (NASDAQ:TWOU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
2U has a consensus price target of $4.10, suggesting a potential upside of 1,372.17%. Given DigiAsia's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe 2U is more favorable than DigiAsia.
DigiAsia has a beta of 0.11, suggesting that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 2U has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DigiAsia has a net margin of 0.00% compared to DigiAsia's net margin of -35.13%. DigiAsia's return on equity of -10.90% beat 2U's return on equity.
In the previous week, 2U had 3 more articles in the media than DigiAsia. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for 2U and 1 mentions for DigiAsia. 2U's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat DigiAsia's score of -0.21 indicating that DigiAsia is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DigiAsia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than 2U.
19.2% of DigiAsia shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.5% of 2U shares are held by institutional investors. 67.3% of DigiAsia shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of 2U shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
2U received 620 more outperform votes than DigiAsia when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
2U beats DigiAsia on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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