SHOP vs. CDNS, NTES, CRWD, SNPS, SNOW, ADSK, TEAM, DDOG, VEEV, and HUBS
Should you be buying Shopify stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shopify include Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), NetEase (NTES), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Synopsys (SNPS), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Veeva Systems (VEEV), and HubSpot (HUBS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS) and Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) 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 valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Cadence Design Systems presently has a consensus target price of $326.11, suggesting a potential upside of 9.15%. Shopify has a consensus target price of $77.06, suggesting a potential upside of 31.43%. Given Cadence Design Systems' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shopify is more favorable than Cadence Design Systems.
Shopify received 795 more outperform votes than Cadence Design Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.18% of users gave Cadence Design Systems an outperform vote while only 66.75% of users gave Shopify an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Shopify had 9 more articles in the media than Cadence Design Systems. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Shopify and 22 mentions for Cadence Design Systems. Cadence Design Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Shopify's score of 0.59 indicating that Shopify is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cadence Design Systems has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shopify has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cadence Design Systems has a net margin of 25.68% compared to Cadence Design Systems' net margin of -2.82%. Shopify's return on equity of 32.44% beat Cadence Design Systems' return on equity.
84.9% of Cadence Design Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Cadence Design Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Cadence Design Systems has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shopify. Shopify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadence Design Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cadence Design Systems beats Shopify on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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