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).
Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) and DocuSign (NASDAQ:DOCU) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Twilio has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DocuSign has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Twilio currently has a consensus price target of $69.95, indicating a potential upside of 21.84%. DocuSign has a consensus price target of $60.25, indicating a potential upside of 10.07%. Given DocuSign's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Twilio is more favorable than DocuSign.
84.3% of Twilio shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of DocuSign shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Twilio shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of DocuSign shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, DocuSign had 6 more articles in the media than Twilio. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for DocuSign and 9 mentions for Twilio. DocuSign's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Twilio's score of 0.68 indicating that Twilio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DocuSign has a net margin of 2.68% compared to DocuSign's net margin of -17.37%. Twilio's return on equity of 13.91% beat DocuSign's return on equity.
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 lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Twilio beats DocuSign on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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