NiCE (NASDAQ:NICE – Get Free Report) and Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and profitability.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
63.3% of NiCE shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.2% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of NiCE shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Bentley Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for NiCE and Bentley Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| NiCE | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Bentley Systems | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 2.67 |
NiCE presently has a consensus price target of $131.71, suggesting a potential upside of 23.94%. Bentley Systems has a consensus price target of $44.77, suggesting a potential upside of 5.24%. Given NiCE’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NiCE is more favorable than Bentley Systems.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares NiCE and Bentley Systems”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| NiCE | $3.07 billion | 2.02 | $612.10 million | $6.87 | 15.47 |
| Bentley Systems | $1.50 billion | 8.23 | $277.86 million | $0.91 | 46.75 |
NiCE has higher revenue and earnings than Bentley Systems. NiCE is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bentley Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares NiCE and Bentley Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| NiCE | 13.86% | 15.46% | 11.53% |
| Bentley Systems | 18.10% | 28.43% | 9.69% |
Volatility and Risk
NiCE has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bentley Systems has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bentley Systems beats NiCE on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About NiCE
NiCE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud platforms for AI-driven digital business solutions worldwide. It offers CXone, a cloud native open platform; Enlighten, an AI engine for the customer engagement market; and smart self-service enables organizations to address consumers’ needs; and journey orchestration solutions that empower organizations to connect and route customers to deal with the customer’s request, and connects them using real-time AI-based routing. The company provides smart self service solutions that empower organizations to build intelligent automated conversations based on data; and prepared agent solutions and tools enable contact center agents to guide and alert them in real time; provides solutions that help organizations to record structured and unstructured customer interaction and transaction data; and NiCE Evidencentral, an digital evidence management platform for public safety emergency communications, law enforcement, and criminal justice helps agencies. In addition, it offers X-Sight, is an open and flexible AI-cloud platform for financial crime and compliance; Xceed, a cloud platform for comprehensive AML and fraud prevention for small and mid-sized organizations; data intelligence solutions that enable organizations to turn raw data into comprehensive actionable intelligence to prevent and detect financial crimes; AI and analytics technologies to detect and prevent financial crimes in real-time; money laundering and fraud prevention solutions that help organizations adhere to capital markets compliance and anti-money laundering compliance regulations; intelligent investigations solutions; and self-service solutions that provide organizations with customization and self-development capabilities. The company was formerly known as NiCE-Systems Ltd. and changed its name to NiCE Ltd. in June 2016. NiCE Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, provides infrastructure engineering software solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company offers open modeling engineering applications, such as MicroStation, OpenBridge, OpenBuildings, OpenCities, OpenComms, OpenFlows, OpenPlant, OpenRail, OpenRoads, OpenSite, OpenTower, OpenTunnel, OpenUtilities, and OpenWindowPower; and open simulation engineering applications, including ADINA, AutoPIPE, CUBE, DYNAMEQ, EMME, LEGION, Power Line Systems, RAM, SACS, SPIDA, and STAAD; and geoprofessional applications for modeling and simulation of near and deep subsurface conditions, including AGS, Central, GeoStudio, Imago, Leapfrog, MX Deposit, Oasis montaj, OpenGround, and PLAXIS. It also provides infrastructure cloud applications, such as ProjectWise, SYNCHRO, and AssetWise, as well as iTwin platform that enables users to create and curate cloud native 4D/5D digital representations of physical infrastructure assets consisting of iTwin Capture, iTwin Experience, and iTwin IoT platforms. The company serves civil, structural, geotechnical, subsurface, process engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, city and regional planners, contractors, fabricators, and operations and maintenance engineers. Bentley Systems, Incorporated was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania.
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