COMP vs. HCP, DOCS, PRFT, DAVA, PRO, FORTY, TWKS, PERI, CINT, and RMBL
Should you be buying Compass stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass include HashiCorp (HCP), Doximity (DOCS), Perficient (PRFT), Endava (DAVA), PROS (PRO), Formula Systems (1985) (FORTY), Thoughtworks (TWKS), Perion Network (PERI), CI&T (CINT), and RumbleOn (RMBL). These companies are all part of the "custom computer programming services" industry.
Compass (NYSE:COMP) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Compass currently has a consensus target price of $3.83, indicating a potential upside of 2.22%. HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $30.77, indicating a potential downside of 8.37%. Given Compass' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Compass is more favorable than HashiCorp.
HashiCorp received 529 more outperform votes than Compass when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.52% of users gave Compass an outperform vote while only 52.54% of users gave HashiCorp an outperform vote.
Compass has a net margin of -6.10% compared to HashiCorp's net margin of -31.13%. HashiCorp's return on equity of -14.31% beat Compass' return on equity.
In the previous week, HashiCorp had 10 more articles in the media than Compass. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HashiCorp and 0 mentions for Compass. HashiCorp's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Compass' score of 0.00 indicating that HashiCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HashiCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Compass. HashiCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Compass, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.1% of Compass shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of HashiCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.3% of Compass shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of HashiCorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Compass has a beta of 2.87, indicating that its stock price is 187% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HashiCorp has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HashiCorp beats Compass on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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