ZD vs. SPSC, ENV, PRFT, YELP, CMPR, OPEN, ANGI, QNST, TTGT, and LQDT
Should you be buying Ziff Davis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ziff Davis include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Yelp (YELP), Cimpress (CMPR), Opendoor Technologies (OPEN), Angi (ANGI), QuinStreet (QNST), TechTarget (TTGT), and Liquidity Services (LQDT). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and Ziff Davis (NASDAQ:ZD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Ziff Davis shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Ziff Davis shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SPS Commerce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ziff Davis. Ziff Davis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SPS Commerce presently has a consensus price target of $200.25, indicating a potential upside of 6.46%. Ziff Davis has a consensus price target of $75.13, indicating a potential upside of 30.40%. Given SPS Commerce's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ziff Davis is more favorable than SPS Commerce.
In the previous week, SPS Commerce had 10 more articles in the media than Ziff Davis. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for SPS Commerce and 4 mentions for Ziff Davis. SPS Commerce's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Ziff Davis' score of 0.87 indicating that Ziff Davis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SPS Commerce received 223 more outperform votes than Ziff Davis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.83% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave Ziff Davis an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.23% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 4.36%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 14.26% beat Ziff Davis' return on equity.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ziff Davis has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats Ziff Davis on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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