SNPS vs. CRWD, PLTR, DDOG, EA, CRM, ADBE, INTU, CDNS, WDAY, and ADSK
Should you be buying Synopsys stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Synopsys include CrowdStrike (CRWD), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Salesforce (CRM), Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), and Autodesk (ADSK).
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Synopsys shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Synopsys shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $375.61, suggesting a potential upside of 7.59%. Synopsys has a consensus price target of $616.18, suggesting a potential upside of 7.83%. Given CrowdStrike's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Synopsys is more favorable than CrowdStrike.
Synopsys has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. Synopsys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synopsys has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Synopsys received 355 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.21% of users gave Synopsys an outperform vote while only 68.30% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote.
Synopsys has a net margin of 23.05% compared to Synopsys' net margin of 4.01%. CrowdStrike's return on equity of 22.66% beat Synopsys' return on equity.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 94 more articles in the media than Synopsys. MarketBeat recorded 103 mentions for CrowdStrike and 9 mentions for Synopsys. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Synopsys' score of 0.52 indicating that Synopsys is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Synopsys beats CrowdStrike on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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