CRM vs. ADBE, INTU, SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, FICO, MSTR, ANSS, and TYL
Should you be buying Salesforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Salesforce include Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), Fair Isaac (FICO), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), and Tyler Technologies (TYL). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) and Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Salesforce currently has a consensus price target of $292.79, suggesting a potential upside of 21.13%. Adobe has a consensus price target of $612.79, suggesting a potential upside of 31.66%. Given Adobe's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Adobe is more favorable than Salesforce.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Salesforce's net margin of 15.30%. Adobe's return on equity of 39.12% beat Salesforce's return on equity.
Salesforce received 1542 more outperform votes than Adobe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.68% of users gave Salesforce an outperform vote while only 70.85% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote.
Adobe has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Salesforce. Salesforce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adobe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Salesforce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Salesforce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Adobe 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.
Salesforce has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adobe has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Salesforce had 33 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Salesforce and 38 mentions for Adobe. Adobe's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Salesforce's score of 0.35 indicating that Adobe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Adobe beats Salesforce on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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