CDW vs. HUBS, GLW, ON, GFS, HPQ, MTD, MSTR, GRMN, ANSS, and PINS
Should you be buying CDW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CDW include HubSpot (HUBS), Corning (GLW), Onsemi (ON), GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS), HP (HPQ), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Garmin (GRMN), ANSYS (ANSS), and Pinterest (PINS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) and CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
HubSpot currently has a consensus target price of $640.04, suggesting a potential upside of 8.45%. CDW has a consensus target price of $247.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.12%. Given CDW's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe HubSpot is more favorable than CDW.
90.4% of HubSpot shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of CDW shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of HubSpot shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CDW shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HubSpot has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CDW has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CDW has a net margin of 5.16% compared to CDW's net margin of -5.78%. HubSpot's return on equity of 67.56% beat CDW's return on equity.
In the previous week, HubSpot had 9 more articles in the media than CDW. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for HubSpot and 9 mentions for CDW. HubSpot's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat CDW's score of 0.74 indicating that CDW is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CDW has higher revenue and earnings than HubSpot. HubSpot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CDW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HubSpot received 268 more outperform votes than CDW when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.81% of users gave HubSpot an outperform vote while only 70.54% of users gave CDW an outperform vote.
Summary
HubSpot and CDW tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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