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NASDAQ:ADBE

Adobe (ADBE) Competitors

$432.75
-1.43 (-0.33%)
(As of 02:33 PM ET)
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Today's Range
$431.24
$437.12
50-Day Range
$335.45
$436.37
52-Week Range
$274.73
$451.15
Volume
1.38 million shs
Average Volume
3.07 million shs
Market Capitalization
$198.50 billion
P/E Ratio
42.64
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$393.65

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Adobe
0 Sell rating(s)
16 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.41
Salesforce
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
24 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.64

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Adobe
7 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Salesforce
14 Very Positive mention(s)
18 Positive mention(s)
49 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Adobe$17.61 billion11.33$4.76 billion$10.1542.84
Salesforce$31.35 billion6.57$208 million$0.38556.94

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Adobe 26.32% 36.53% 19.35%
Salesforce 1.18% 5.75% 3.57%

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AdobeOutperform Votes
1581
71.93%
Underperform Votes
617
28.07%
SalesforceOutperform Votes
3088
83.35%
Underperform Votes
617
16.65%

Summary

Salesforce beats Adobe on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.


New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ADBE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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ADBE vs. The Competition

MetricAdobePrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$199.45B$18.73B$15.04B$6.29B
Dividend YieldN/A1.97%4.78%6.51%
P/E Ratio42.8428.91307.7511.62
Price / Sales11.336.83797.9196.06
Price / Cash33.7164.2626.3423.57
Price / Book14.3917.2010.635.47
Net Income$4.76B$275.14M$516.86M$192.28M
7 Day Performance4.22%4.14%1.92%3.57%
1 Month Performance24.80%12.27%6.27%5.00%
1 Year Performance1.25%-3.36%-3.95%2.89%

Adobe Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRM
Salesforce
1.8392 of 5 stars
$218.87
+1.6%
$212.14
-3.1%
+13.5%$214.68B$31.35B1,042.2979,390Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
INTU
Intuit
2.7249 of 5 stars
$406.09
-2.9%
$491.35
+21.0%
+8.3%$113.73B$12.73B51.2717,300High Trading Volume
SNPS
Synopsys
2.0404 of 5 stars
$464.83
+4.5%
$434.70
-6.5%
+37.4%$70.73B$5.08B78.3919,000Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
CDNS
Cadence Design Systems
1.9779 of 5 stars
$234.75
+2.8%
$220.80
-5.9%
+46.5%$64.01B$3.56B75.0010,200
SAP
SAP
1.9832 of 5 stars
$130.28
-0.9%
$126.20
-3.1%
+31.0%$153.68B$32.53B72.78111,961
NOW
ServiceNow
2.2676 of 5 stars
$549.12
+2.2%
$527.70
-3.9%
+13.1%$111.88B$7.25B280.1620,433Insider Selling
ORCL
Oracle
2.5271 of 5 stars
$105.15
+1.0%
$95.46
-9.2%
+48.9%$283.88B$42.44B34.70143,000Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Report
SHOP
Shopify
1.5103 of 5 stars
$58.19
-1.8%
$54.85
-5.7%
+69.4%$74.29B$5.60B-38.5411,600Gap Up
VMW
VMware
2.1862 of 5 stars
$133.69
+0.3%
$137.70
+3.0%
+1.9%$57.28B$13.35B43.4138,300Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
NTES
NetEase
2.781 of 5 stars
$84.97
-5.1%
$116.25
+36.8%
-15.3%$55.64B$13.99B16.9631,119Analyst Report

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This page (NASDAQ:ADBE) was last updated on 6/6/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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