ADBE vs. CRM, INTU, SNPS, CDNS, SAP, NOW, ORCL, SHOP, VMW, and NTES
Should you be buying Adobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adobe include Salesforce (CRM), Intuit (INTU), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), SAP (SAP), ServiceNow (NOW), Oracle (ORCL), Shopify (SHOP), VMware (VMW), and NetEase (NTES). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Adobe vs.
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) 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 valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Adobe presently has a consensus target price of $398.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.62%. Salesforce has a consensus target price of $220.97, indicating a potential upside of 4.80%. Given Salesforce's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Salesforce is more favorable than Adobe.
In the previous week, Salesforce had 91 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 113 mentions for Salesforce and 22 mentions for Adobe. Adobe's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Salesforce's score of 0.37 indicating that Adobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Adobe has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Salesforce. Adobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Salesforce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adobe has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Salesforce has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adobe has a net margin of 26.32% compared to Salesforce's net margin of 1.18%. Adobe's return on equity of 36.53% beat Salesforce's return on equity.
79.4% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.8% of Salesforce shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Salesforce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Salesforce received 1507 more outperform votes than Adobe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 83.35% of users gave Salesforce an outperform vote while only 71.93% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote.
Summary
Salesforce beats Adobe on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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