QCOM vs. MSI, INTU, IBM, VZ, TMUS, CSCO, AMAT, NOW, TXN, and ADBE
Should you be buying QUALCOMM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of QUALCOMM include Motorola Solutions (MSI), Intuit (INTU), International Business Machines (IBM), Verizon Communications (VZ), T-Mobile US (TMUS), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Applied Materials (AMAT), ServiceNow (NOW), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Adobe (ADBE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Motorola Solutions (NYSE:MSI) and QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Motorola Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $348.38, indicating a potential upside of 0.55%. QUALCOMM has a consensus target price of $158.86, indicating a potential downside of 4.10%. Given QUALCOMM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Motorola Solutions is more favorable than QUALCOMM.
Motorola Solutions has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QUALCOMM has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
QUALCOMM has a net margin of 21.39% compared to QUALCOMM's net margin of 17.12%. QUALCOMM's return on equity of 441.65% beat Motorola Solutions' return on equity.
84.2% of Motorola Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.4% of QUALCOMM shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Motorola Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of QUALCOMM shares are owned 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.
Motorola Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. QUALCOMM pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Motorola Solutions pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. QUALCOMM pays out 46.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Motorola Solutions has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and QUALCOMM has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years. QUALCOMM is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
QUALCOMM received 1445 more outperform votes than Motorola Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.79% of users gave QUALCOMM an outperform vote while only 67.30% of users gave Motorola Solutions an outperform vote.
QUALCOMM has higher revenue and earnings than Motorola Solutions. QUALCOMM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Motorola Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, QUALCOMM had 43 more articles in the media than Motorola Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for QUALCOMM and 6 mentions for Motorola Solutions. QUALCOMM's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Motorola Solutions' score of 0.38 indicating that Motorola Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
QUALCOMM beats Motorola Solutions on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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