KC vs. FSLY, SWI, APPN, MQ, CERT, ALKT, INTA, YOU, RPD, and LSPD
Should you be buying Kingsoft Cloud stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingsoft Cloud include Fastly (FSLY), SolarWinds (SWI), Appian (APPN), Marqeta (MQ), Certara (CERT), Alkami Technology (ALKT), Intapp (INTA), Clear Secure (YOU), Rapid7 (RPD), and Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Kingsoft Cloud (NASDAQ:KC) and Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Fastly had 26 more articles in the media than Kingsoft Cloud. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Fastly and 3 mentions for Kingsoft Cloud. Kingsoft Cloud's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Fastly's score of 0.09 indicating that Kingsoft Cloud is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kingsoft Cloud has a beta of 2.07, indicating that its share price is 107% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fastly has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingsoft Cloud. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kingsoft Cloud, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.4% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.2% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Fastly shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fastly has a net margin of -25.26% compared to Kingsoft Cloud's net margin of -27.62%. Fastly's return on equity of -15.82% beat Kingsoft Cloud's return on equity.
Kingsoft Cloud presently has a consensus price target of $4.55, suggesting a potential upside of 60.78%. Fastly has a consensus price target of $14.61, suggesting a potential upside of 86.37%. Given Fastly's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fastly is more favorable than Kingsoft Cloud.
Fastly received 111 more outperform votes than Kingsoft Cloud when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 50.40% of users gave Fastly an outperform vote while only 40.54% of users gave Kingsoft Cloud an outperform vote.
Summary
Fastly beats Kingsoft Cloud on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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