SWI vs. HCP, PEGA, BLKB, ACIW, PLUS, VRNT, SPNS, NTCT, PRO, and DMRC
Should you be buying SolarWinds stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SolarWinds include HashiCorp (HCP), Pegasystems (PEGA), Blackbaud (BLKB), ACI Worldwide (ACIW), ePlus (PLUS), Verint Systems (VRNT), Sapiens International (SPNS), NetScout Systems (NTCT), PROS (PRO), and Digimarc (DMRC). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
HashiCorp received 221 more outperform votes than SolarWinds when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote while only 52.49% of users gave HashiCorp an outperform vote.
SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HashiCorp has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SolarWinds has higher revenue and earnings than HashiCorp. HashiCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of HashiCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of HashiCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, HashiCorp had 9 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for HashiCorp and 2 mentions for SolarWinds. HashiCorp's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.58 indicating that HashiCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SolarWinds presently has a consensus target price of $13.80, indicating a potential upside of 19.17%. HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $30.77, indicating a potential downside of 8.37%. Given SolarWinds' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SolarWinds is more favorable than HashiCorp.
SolarWinds has a net margin of 1.58% compared to HashiCorp's net margin of -31.13%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 6.47% beat HashiCorp's return on equity.
Summary
SolarWinds beats HashiCorp on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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