INTU vs. ADBE, WFC, CRM, SNPS, CDNS, ADSK, NOW, SHOP, CRWD, and NTES
Should you be buying Intuit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuit include Adobe (ADBE), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Salesforce (CRM), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Autodesk (ADSK), ServiceNow (NOW), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), and NetEase (NTES).
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Adobe has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adobe received 557 more outperform votes than Intuit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote while only 68.63% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Adobe's net margin of 18.35%. Intuit's return on equity of 39.12% beat Adobe's return on equity.
In the previous week, Adobe had 23 more articles in the media than Intuit. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Adobe and 25 mentions for Intuit. Adobe's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Intuit's score of 0.51 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Adobe currently has a consensus target price of $620.72, indicating a potential upside of 29.98%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $650.23, indicating a potential upside of 1.95%. Given Intuit's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Adobe is more favorable than Intuit.
81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Intuit shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adobe has higher revenue and earnings than Intuit. Adobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Adobe beats Intuit on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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