EGAN vs. CMCM, SSTI, XNET, RDVT, WIMI, KC, DH, BIGC, WEAV, and BAND
Should you be buying eGain stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eGain include Cheetah Mobile (CMCM), SoundThinking (SSTI), Xunlei (XNET), Red Violet (RDVT), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Definitive Healthcare (DH), BigCommerce (BIGC), Weave Communications (WEAV), and Bandwidth (BAND). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
eGain (NASDAQ:EGAN) and Cheetah Mobile (NYSE:CMCM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
eGain received 8 more outperform votes than Cheetah Mobile when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave eGain an outperform vote while only 52.20% of users gave Cheetah Mobile an outperform vote.
53.9% of eGain shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Cheetah Mobile shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.3% of eGain shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Cheetah Mobile shares are owned 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.
eGain presently has a consensus target price of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.97%. Given eGain's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe eGain is more favorable than Cheetah Mobile.
eGain has a net margin of 9.34% compared to Cheetah Mobile's net margin of 0.00%. eGain's return on equity of 13.83% beat Cheetah Mobile's return on equity.
eGain has higher revenue and earnings than Cheetah Mobile.
In the previous week, eGain had 2 more articles in the media than Cheetah Mobile. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for eGain and 3 mentions for Cheetah Mobile. eGain's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Cheetah Mobile's score of 0.33 indicating that eGain is being referred to more favorably in the media.
eGain has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheetah Mobile has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
eGain beats Cheetah Mobile on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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