CDAY vs. TEAM, ADSK, SQ, DDOG, EA, VEEV, HUBS, MSTR, ANSS, and TTWO
Should you be buying Ceridian HCM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceridian HCM include Atlassian (TEAM), Autodesk (ADSK), Block (SQ), Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), and Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) and Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
93.0% of Atlassian shares are held by institutional investors. 40.5% of Atlassian shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are held by 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.
Atlassian has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ceridian HCM has a net margin of 0.28% compared to Ceridian HCM's net margin of -3.90%. Atlassian's return on equity of 2.03% beat Ceridian HCM's return on equity.
Atlassian currently has a consensus target price of $223.22, indicating a potential upside of 42.31%. Ceridian HCM has a consensus target price of $76.80, indicating a potential upside of 55.28%. Given Atlassian's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than Atlassian.
Atlassian received 315 more outperform votes than Ceridian HCM when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Atlassian an outperform vote while only 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Atlassian had 18 more articles in the media than Ceridian HCM. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Atlassian and 5 mentions for Ceridian HCM. Atlassian's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Ceridian HCM's score of 0.61 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ceridian HCM has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atlassian. Atlassian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ceridian HCM beats Atlassian on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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