DBX vs. RP, PLAN, AYX, NCNO, BL, VEEV, ANSS, TTWO, MSTR, and NET
Should you be buying Dropbox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dropbox include RealPage (RP), Anaplan (PLAN), Alteryx (AYX), nCino (NCNO), BlackLine (BL), Veeva Systems (VEEV), ANSYS (ANSS), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), MicroStrategy (MSTR), and Cloudflare (NET).
Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) and RealPage (NASDAQ:RP) are both mid-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, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than RealPage. Dropbox is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RealPage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dropbox had 14 more articles in the media than RealPage. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Dropbox and 0 mentions for RealPage. Dropbox's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat RealPage's score of 0.00 indicating that Dropbox is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RealPage received 97 more outperform votes than Dropbox when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.30% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 58.19% of users gave RealPage an outperform vote.
Dropbox has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RealPage has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dropbox presently has a consensus target price of $29.78, suggesting a potential upside of 32.17%. Given Dropbox's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Dropbox is more favorable than RealPage.
94.8% of Dropbox shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of RealPage shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.4% of Dropbox shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of RealPage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dropbox has a net margin of 20.50% compared to RealPage's net margin of 4.79%. RealPage's return on equity of 9.64% beat Dropbox's return on equity.
Summary
Dropbox beats RealPage on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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