OTEX vs. CACI, PSN, JKHY, SAIC, SPSC, PEGA, VRNT, GDDY, TLS, and IOT
Should you be buying Open Text stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Open Text include CACI International (CACI), Parsons (PSN), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Science Applications International (SAIC), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Pegasystems (PEGA), Verint Systems (VRNT), GoDaddy (GDDY), Telos (TLS), and Samsara (IOT).
Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) and CACI International (NYSE:CACI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Open Text received 17 more outperform votes than CACI International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.54% of users gave Open Text an outperform vote while only 62.63% of users gave CACI International an outperform vote.
70.4% of Open Text shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of CACI International shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.6% of Open Text shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of CACI International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Open Text has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CACI International has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CACI International has a net margin of 5.37% compared to Open Text's net margin of 2.85%. Open Text's return on equity of 24.45% beat CACI International's return on equity.
In the previous week, Open Text had 29 more articles in the media than CACI International. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Open Text and 11 mentions for CACI International. CACI International's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Open Text's score of -0.07 indicating that CACI International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Open Text currently has a consensus price target of $42.25, suggesting a potential upside of 38.21%. CACI International has a consensus price target of $415.45, suggesting a potential downside of 2.93%. Given Open Text's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Open Text is more favorable than CACI International.
CACI International has higher revenue and earnings than Open Text. CACI International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Open Text, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CACI International beats Open Text on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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