BB vs. SWI, PD, EVCM, SPNS, PRGS, SEMR, AVDX, RPD, SPT, and APPN
Should you be buying BlackBerry stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackBerry include SolarWinds (SWI), PagerDuty (PD), EverCommerce (EVCM), Sapiens International (SPNS), Progress Software (PRGS), Semrush (SEMR), AvidXchange (AVDX), Rapid7 (RPD), Sprout Social (SPT), and Appian (APPN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
BlackBerry (NYSE:BB) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, BlackBerry had 5 more articles in the media than SolarWinds. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for BlackBerry and 2 mentions for SolarWinds. SolarWinds' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat BlackBerry's score of 0.59 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackBerry received 385 more outperform votes than SolarWinds when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.03% of users gave BlackBerry an outperform vote while only 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote.
SolarWinds has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BlackBerry. BlackBerry is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackBerry has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.5% of BlackBerry shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of BlackBerry shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SolarWinds has a net margin of 1.58% compared to BlackBerry's net margin of -15.24%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 6.47% beat BlackBerry's return on equity.
BlackBerry currently has a consensus price target of $4.08, indicating a potential upside of 38.65%. SolarWinds has a consensus price target of $13.80, indicating a potential upside of 13.67%. Given BlackBerry's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BlackBerry is more favorable than SolarWinds.
Summary
SolarWinds beats BlackBerry on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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