APH vs. CRWD, CDNS, INFY, RELX, PYPL, NXPI, SNPS, WDAY, ANET, and NTES
Should you be buying Amphenol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amphenol include CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Infosys (INFY), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Synopsys (SNPS), Workday (WDAY), Arista Networks (ANET), and NetEase (NTES). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Amphenol (NYSE:APH) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Amphenol shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Amphenol shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Amphenol received 128 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.93% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote while only 67.58% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote.
CrowdStrike currently has a consensus price target of $371.87, suggesting a potential upside of 7.50%. Amphenol has a consensus price target of $124.45, suggesting a potential downside of 5.65%. Given Amphenol's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than Amphenol.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amphenol has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Amphenol has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. Amphenol is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.87% compared to Amphenol's net margin of 2.92%. CrowdStrike's return on equity of 23.85% beat Amphenol's return on equity.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 19 more articles in the media than Amphenol. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for CrowdStrike and 16 mentions for Amphenol. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Amphenol's score of 0.77 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Amphenol beats CrowdStrike on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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