INTU vs. WFC, CRM, ADBE, SNPS, CDNS, ATVI, VMW, WDAY, SNOW, and ADSK
Should you be buying Intuit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuit include Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Salesforce (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), VMware (VMW), Workday (WDAY), Snowflake (SNOW), and Autodesk (ADSK).
Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) and Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Wells Fargo & Company received 411 more outperform votes than Intuit when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.75% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote while only 63.15% of users gave Wells Fargo & Company an outperform vote.
83.7% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Intuit shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Wells Fargo & Company shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intuit has a net margin of 19.43% compared to Wells Fargo & Company's net margin of 15.63%. Intuit's return on equity of 18.61% beat Wells Fargo & Company's return on equity.
Wells Fargo & Company has higher revenue and earnings than Intuit. Wells Fargo & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intuit pays an annual dividend of $3.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Wells Fargo & Company pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Intuit pays out 33.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wells Fargo & Company pays out 29.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Wells Fargo & Company is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Intuit has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wells Fargo & Company has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intuit and Intuit both had 15 articles in the media. Intuit's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Wells Fargo & Company's score of 0.86 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intuit currently has a consensus price target of $679.41, indicating a potential upside of 18.38%. Wells Fargo & Company has a consensus price target of $58.99, indicating a potential upside of 1.11%. Given Intuit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Intuit is more favorable than Wells Fargo & Company.
Summary
Intuit beats Wells Fargo & Company on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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