NOW vs. ORCL, INTU, SHOP, ADBE, SNPS, CDNS, CRWD, NTES, TEAM, and SNOW
Should you be buying ServiceNow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ServiceNow include Oracle (ORCL), Intuit (INTU), Shopify (SHOP), Adobe (ADBE), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Atlassian (TEAM), and Snowflake (SNOW). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
ServiceNow has a net margin of 20.34% compared to Oracle's net margin of 20.27%. Oracle's return on equity of 336.11% beat ServiceNow's return on equity.
ServiceNow currently has a consensus price target of $792.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.55%. Oracle has a consensus price target of $130.76, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Given Oracle's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Oracle is more favorable than ServiceNow.
ServiceNow has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oracle has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ServiceNow had 3 more articles in the media than Oracle. MarketBeat recorded 62 mentions for ServiceNow and 59 mentions for Oracle. ServiceNow's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Oracle's score of 0.51 indicating that ServiceNow is being referred to more favorably in the media.
87.2% of ServiceNow shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Oracle shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of ServiceNow shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 42.8% of Oracle shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Oracle received 762 more outperform votes than ServiceNow when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.56% of users gave ServiceNow an outperform vote while only 70.10% of users gave Oracle an outperform vote.
Oracle has higher revenue and earnings than ServiceNow. Oracle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServiceNow, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ServiceNow beats Oracle on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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