SEMR vs. PD, FROG, DH, BIGC, EXFY, DAY, INFA, GTLB, PCTY, and DSGX
Should you be buying Semrush stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Semrush include PagerDuty (PD), JFrog (FROG), Definitive Healthcare (DH), BigCommerce (BIGC), Expensify (EXFY), Dayforce (DAY), Informatica (INFA), GitLab (GTLB), Paylocity (PCTY), and The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Semrush (NASDAQ:SEMR) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
Semrush currently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.26%. PagerDuty has a consensus target price of $27.13, suggesting a potential upside of 42.99%. Given PagerDuty's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Semrush.
In the previous week, PagerDuty had 15 more articles in the media than Semrush. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for PagerDuty and 6 mentions for Semrush. PagerDuty's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Semrush's score of 0.07 indicating that PagerDuty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Semrush has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Semrush, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PagerDuty received 104 more outperform votes than Semrush when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.49% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote while only 56.06% of users gave Semrush an outperform vote.
Semrush has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Semrush has a net margin of 4.01% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -21.34%. Semrush's return on equity of 6.05% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
32.9% of Semrush shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. 57.8% of Semrush shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Semrush beats PagerDuty on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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