CA - CA Competitors

CA (NASDAQ:CA) and VMware (NYSE:VMW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CA or VMW?

VMware has higher revenue and earnings than CA. CA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VMware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CA	$4.24 billion	4.39	$476 million	$2.32	19.16
VMware	$13.35 billion	3.78	$1.31 billion	$3.08	38.50

Is CA or VMW more profitable?

CA has a net margin of 11.19% compared to VMware's net margin of 9.84%. VMware's return on equity of 949.34% beat CA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CA	11.19%	15.11%	7.46%
VMware	9.84%	949.34%	6.08%

Which has more volatility & risk, CA or VMW?

CA has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VMware has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate CA or VMW?

VMware has a consensus price target of $135.88, suggesting a potential upside of 14.59%. Given VMware's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe VMware is more favorable than CA.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CA	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
VMware	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media refer more to CA or VMW?

In the previous week, VMware had 11 more articles in the media than CA. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for VMware and 0 mentions for CA. VMware's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat CA's score of 0.00 indicating that VMware is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
CA	Neutral
VMware	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CA or VMW?

VMware received 655 more outperform votes than CA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.84% of users gave VMware an outperform vote while only 64.02% of users gave CA an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CA	Outperform Votes 813 64.02%	Underperform Votes 457 35.98%
VMware	Outperform Votes 1468 69.84%	Underperform Votes 634 30.16%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of CA or VMW?

69.7% of CA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of VMware shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of CA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.3% of VMware shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

VMware beats CA on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.