ANSS vs. SPLK, TTWO, NET, OKTA, SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, FICO, and MSTR
Should you be buying ANSYS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ANSYS include Splunk (SPLK), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Cloudflare (NET), Okta (OKTA), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), Fair Isaac (FICO), and MicroStrategy (MSTR).
ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) and Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and institutional ownership.
ANSYS has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Splunk. ANSYS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Splunk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ANSYS had 11 more articles in the media than Splunk. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for ANSYS and 1 mentions for Splunk. ANSYS's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Splunk's score of 0.23 indicating that ANSYS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.4% of ANSYS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of Splunk shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of ANSYS shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Splunk shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ANSYS currently has a consensus price target of $320.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.48%. Splunk has a consensus price target of $136.88, suggesting a potential downside of 12.76%. Given ANSYS's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ANSYS is more favorable than Splunk.
Splunk received 1391 more outperform votes than ANSYS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.75% of users gave Splunk an outperform vote while only 54.39% of users gave ANSYS an outperform vote.
ANSYS has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Splunk has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
ANSYS has a net margin of 19.51% compared to Splunk's net margin of 6.26%. Splunk's return on equity of 32,117.42% beat ANSYS's return on equity.
Summary
ANSYS beats Splunk on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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