ACN vs. PDD, IBM, SPGI, UBER, MELI, TRI, IT, CTSH, BAH, and LDOS
Should you be buying Accenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accenture include PDD (PDD), International Business Machines (IBM), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Gartner (IT), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), and Leidos (LDOS).
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
29.1% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Accenture received 736 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.30% of users gave Accenture an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PDD had 41 more articles in the media than Accenture. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for PDD and 17 mentions for Accenture. PDD's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Accenture's score of 0.75 indicating that Accenture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PDD has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Accenture. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PDD currently has a consensus price target of $188.33, suggesting a potential upside of 25.79%. Accenture has a consensus price target of $380.24, suggesting a potential upside of 27.71%. Given PDD's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than PDD.
PDD has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PDD has a net margin of 26.93% compared to PDD's net margin of 10.89%. Accenture's return on equity of 45.04% beat PDD's return on equity.
Summary
Accenture beats PDD on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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