ADP vs. WDAY, VRSK, ZEN, PEGA, FIVN, MA, FI, PAYX, FIS, and GPN
Should you be buying Automatic Data Processing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Automatic Data Processing include Workday (WDAY), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Zendesk (ZEN), Pegasystems (PEGA), Five9 (FIVN), Mastercard (MA), Fiserv (FI), Paychex (PAYX), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), and Global Payments (GPN).
Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
80.0% of Automatic Data Processing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Automatic Data Processing shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Workday 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.
Automatic Data Processing presently has a consensus target price of $255.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.97%. Workday has a consensus target price of $281.44, indicating a potential upside of 22.59%. Given Workday's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Automatic Data Processing.
Workday received 766 more outperform votes than Automatic Data Processing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.13% of users gave Workday an outperform vote while only 58.77% of users gave Automatic Data Processing an outperform vote.
Automatic Data Processing has higher revenue and earnings than Workday. Automatic Data Processing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Workday has a net margin of 19.66% compared to Automatic Data Processing's net margin of 19.56%. Automatic Data Processing's return on equity of 93.09% beat Workday's return on equity.
In the previous week, Workday had 6 more articles in the media than Automatic Data Processing. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Workday and 13 mentions for Automatic Data Processing. Workday's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Automatic Data Processing's score of 0.66 indicating that Workday is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Automatic Data Processing has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Workday beats Automatic Data Processing on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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