SSTI vs. EGAN, CMCM, RDVT, WIMI, BNFT, AILE, WKME, KC, GDYN, and BIGC
Should you be buying SoundThinking stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SoundThinking include eGain (EGAN), Cheetah Mobile (CMCM), Red Violet (RDVT), WiMi Hologram Cloud (WIMI), Benefitfocus (BNFT), iLearningEngines (AILE), WalkMe (WKME), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Grid Dynamics (GDYN), and BigCommerce (BIGC). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) and eGain (NASDAQ:EGAN) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk and dividends.
eGain received 19 more outperform votes than SoundThinking when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.81% of users gave eGain an outperform vote while only 68.46% of users gave SoundThinking an outperform vote.
eGain has a net margin of 9.34% compared to SoundThinking's net margin of -3.94%. eGain's return on equity of 13.83% beat SoundThinking's return on equity.
60.7% of SoundThinking shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of eGain shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.7% of SoundThinking shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 34.3% of eGain shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SoundThinking had 2 more articles in the media than eGain. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SoundThinking and 5 mentions for eGain. eGain's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat SoundThinking's score of 0.74 indicating that eGain is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SoundThinking has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eGain has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
eGain has higher revenue and earnings than SoundThinking. SoundThinking is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than eGain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SoundThinking currently has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.01%. eGain has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 53.97%. Given eGain's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe eGain is more favorable than SoundThinking.
Summary
eGain beats SoundThinking on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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