WDC vs. MSTR, PINS, ASX, VOD, HPE, PTC, TME, GIB, NOK, and NTAP
Should you be buying Western Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Digital include MicroStrategy (MSTR), Pinterest (PINS), ASE Technology (ASX), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), PTC (PTC), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), CGI (GIB), Nokia Oyj (NOK), and NetApp (NTAP). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) and Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
72.0% of MicroStrategy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Western Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of MicroStrategy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Western Digital shares are owned by company 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.
MicroStrategy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Western Digital. Western Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MicroStrategy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MicroStrategy has a beta of 2.89, meaning that its share price is 189% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Digital has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MicroStrategy has a net margin of 86.47% compared to MicroStrategy's net margin of -12.87%. Western Digital's return on equity of 42.81% beat MicroStrategy's return on equity.
MicroStrategy currently has a consensus target price of $1,678.75, indicating a potential upside of 46.49%. Western Digital has a consensus target price of $77.76, indicating a potential upside of 9.08%. Given Western Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MicroStrategy is more favorable than Western Digital.
Western Digital received 1628 more outperform votes than MicroStrategy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.14% of users gave Western Digital an outperform vote while only 62.15% of users gave MicroStrategy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Western Digital had 1 more articles in the media than MicroStrategy. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Western Digital and 56 mentions for MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Western Digital's score of 0.37 indicating that Western Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MicroStrategy beats Western Digital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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