PCTY vs. CDAY, DAY, GWRE, GTLB, TWLO, CYBR, PAYC, INFA, APPF, and ESTC
Should you be buying Paylocity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paylocity include Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), GitLab (GTLB), Twilio (TWLO), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Paycom Software (PAYC), Informatica (INFA), AppFolio (APPF), and Elastic (ESTC).
Paylocity (NASDAQ:PCTY) and Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends and community ranking.
Paylocity has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Paylocity had 9 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Paylocity and 2 mentions for Ceridian HCM. Ceridian HCM's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Paylocity's score of 1.11 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
94.8% of Paylocity shares are held by institutional investors. 22.5% of Paylocity shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Paylocity has a net margin of 14.42% compared to Ceridian HCM's net margin of 0.28%. Paylocity's return on equity of 22.08% beat Ceridian HCM's return on equity.
Paylocity received 234 more outperform votes than Ceridian HCM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.64% of users gave Paylocity an outperform vote while only 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote.
Paylocity currently has a consensus target price of $196.40, suggesting a potential upside of 29.40%. Ceridian HCM has a consensus target price of $76.80, suggesting a potential upside of 36.75%. Given Ceridian HCM's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than Paylocity.
Paylocity has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ceridian HCM. Paylocity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Paylocity beats Ceridian HCM on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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