ADP vs. WDAY, VRSK, FI, ARM, WM, TRI, TT, SPGI, MRVL, and RSG
Should you be buying Automatic Data Processing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Automatic Data Processing include Workday (WDAY), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Fiserv (FI), ARM (ARM), Waste Management (WM), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Trane Technologies (TT), S&P Global (SPGI), Marvell Technology (MRVL), and Republic Services (RSG).
Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and community ranking.
Automatic Data Processing currently has a consensus target price of $255.42, indicating a potential upside of 4.98%. Workday has a consensus target price of $283.96, indicating a potential upside of 31.81%. Given Workday's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Automatic Data Processing.
Automatic Data Processing has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Automatic Data Processing has higher revenue and earnings than Workday. Automatic Data Processing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Workday received 766 more outperform votes than Automatic Data Processing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Workday an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave Automatic Data Processing an outperform vote.
Workday has a net margin of 19.66% compared to Automatic Data Processing's net margin of 19.56%. Automatic Data Processing's return on equity of 93.09% beat Workday's return on equity.
In the previous week, Workday had 105 more articles in the media than Automatic Data Processing. MarketBeat recorded 125 mentions for Workday and 20 mentions for Automatic Data Processing. Automatic Data Processing's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Workday's score of 0.02 indicating that Automatic Data Processing is being referred to more favorably in the media.
80.0% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Workday shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Workday beats Automatic Data Processing on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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