WDAY vs. PYPL, APH, INFY, CRWD, NTES, CDNS, AMX, NXPI, ROP, and MSI
Should you be buying Workday stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workday include PayPal (PYPL), Amphenol (APH), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), América Móvil (AMX), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Roper Technologies (ROP), and Motorola Solutions (MSI). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) 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 analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
PayPal has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal currently has a consensus target price of $70.47, indicating a potential upside of 6.84%. Workday has a consensus target price of $293.61, indicating a potential upside of 16.96%. Given PayPal's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Workday is more favorable than PayPal.
Workday has a net margin of 19.02% compared to Workday's net margin of 14.26%. Workday's return on equity of 20.84% beat PayPal's return on equity.
68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.1% of Workday shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Workday. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PayPal had 12 more articles in the media than Workday. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for PayPal and 17 mentions for Workday. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Workday's score of 0.56 indicating that Workday is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PayPal received 400 more outperform votes than Workday when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.58% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 64.97% of users gave Workday an outperform vote.
Summary
Workday beats PayPal on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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