WWD vs. ZG, FFIV, DOX, OTEX, CDAY, DAY, U, CYBR, LSCC, and MNDY
Should you be buying Woodward stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Woodward include Zillow Group (ZG), F5 (FFIV), Amdocs (DOX), Open Text (OTEX), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), Unity Software (U), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), and monday.com (MNDY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG) and Woodward (NASDAQ:WWD) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
Zillow Group currently has a consensus price target of $57.40, indicating a potential upside of 43.25%. Woodward has a consensus price target of $168.75, indicating a potential downside of 0.05%. Given Woodward's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Zillow Group is more favorable than Woodward.
20.3% of Zillow Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.2% of Woodward shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Zillow Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Woodward shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Woodward has higher revenue and earnings than Zillow Group. Zillow Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Woodward, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zillow Group has a beta of 1.87, indicating that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Woodward has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Woodward had 5 more articles in the media than Zillow Group. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Woodward and 28 mentions for Zillow Group. Zillow Group's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Woodward's score of 0.17 indicating that Woodward is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zillow Group received 449 more outperform votes than Woodward when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.56% of users gave Zillow Group an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Woodward an outperform vote.
Woodward has a net margin of 11.09% compared to Woodward's net margin of -7.93%. Zillow Group's return on equity of 16.50% beat Woodward's return on equity.
Summary
Woodward beats Zillow Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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