MRDB vs. CRNC, ZENV, EXFY, XNET, CCRD, AISP, FAAS, SKIL, UPLD, and WIMI
Should you be buying MariaDB stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MariaDB include Cerence (CRNC), Zenvia (ZENV), Expensify (EXFY), Xunlei (XNET), CoreCard (CCRD), Airship AI (AISP), DigiAsia (FAAS), Skillsoft (SKIL), Upland Software (UPLD), and WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Cerence (NASDAQ:CRNC) and MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
MariaDB has a net margin of -73.29% compared to MariaDB's net margin of -80.93%. MariaDB's return on equity of 3.66% beat Cerence's return on equity.
Cerence currently has a consensus target price of $10.08, suggesting a potential upside of 225.27%. Given MariaDB's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Cerence is more favorable than MariaDB.
91.4% of Cerence shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.7% of MariaDB shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Cerence shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.1% of MariaDB shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cerence has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MariaDB has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cerence received 86 more outperform votes than MariaDB when rated by MarketBeat users.
MariaDB has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cerence. MariaDB is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cerence, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Cerence had 2 more articles in the media than MariaDB. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Cerence and 0 mentions for MariaDB. Cerence's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat MariaDB's score of -0.50 indicating that MariaDB is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cerence beats MariaDB on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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