AAPL vs. MSFT, GOOG, NVDA, GOOGL, META, TSM, DELL, SMCI, OMCL, and OSS
Should you be buying Apple stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apple include Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Dell Technologies (DELL), Super Micro Computer (SMCI), Omnicell (OMCL), and One Stop Systems (OSS).
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Apple has higher revenue and earnings than Microsoft. Apple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Microsoft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apple has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Microsoft has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Microsoft has a net margin of 36.27% compared to Apple's net margin of 26.16%. Apple's return on equity of 156.04% beat Microsoft's return on equity.
Apple currently has a consensus target price of $203.05, suggesting a potential upside of 19.94%. Microsoft has a consensus target price of $452.61, suggesting a potential upside of 11.39%. Given Apple's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Apple is more favorable than Microsoft.
In the previous week, Microsoft had 43 more articles in the media than Apple. MarketBeat recorded 162 mentions for Microsoft and 119 mentions for Apple. Microsoft's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Apple's score of 0.24 indicating that Microsoft is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
60.4% of Apple shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.1% of Microsoft shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Apple shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Microsoft shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Apple pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Microsoft pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Apple pays out 15.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Microsoft pays out 27.1% 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.
Apple received 4078 more outperform votes than Microsoft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.24% of users gave Apple an outperform vote while only 72.55% of users gave Microsoft an outperform vote.
Summary
Apple beats Microsoft on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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