DOX vs. IT, CTSH, BAH, LDOS, EPAM, CACI, TDC, HCKT, FORR, and UIS
Should you be buying Amdocs stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amdocs include Gartner (IT), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Leidos (LDOS), EPAM Systems (EPAM), CACI International (CACI), Teradata (TDC), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Forrester Research (FORR), and Unisys (UIS). These companies are all part of the "it consulting & other services" industry.
Gartner (NYSE:IT) and Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Amdocs received 202 more outperform votes than Gartner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.42% of users gave Amdocs an outperform vote while only 58.59% of users gave Gartner an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Gartner had 4 more articles in the media than Amdocs. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Gartner and 9 mentions for Amdocs. Amdocs' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Gartner's score of 0.75 indicating that Gartner is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.5% of Gartner shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Amdocs shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Gartner shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of Amdocs shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gartner currently has a consensus price target of $474.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.22%. Amdocs has a consensus price target of $104.83, suggesting a potential upside of 37.05%. Given Gartner's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Amdocs is more favorable than Gartner.
Gartner has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Gartner's net margin of 10.62%. Amdocs' return on equity of 141.55% beat Gartner's return on equity.
Gartner has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amdocs has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gartner has higher revenue and earnings than Amdocs. Amdocs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gartner beats Amdocs on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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