CDW vs. VIPS, VEEV, HUBS, CTSH, VRT, BIDU, CSGP, MPWR, NET, and SE
Should you be buying CDW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CDW include Vipshop (VIPS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Vertiv (VRT), Baidu (BIDU), CoStar Group (CSGP), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Cloudflare (NET), and SEA (SE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS) and CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Vipshop has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CDW. Vipshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CDW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vipshop has a net margin of 7.20% compared to Vipshop's net margin of 5.17%. Vipshop's return on equity of 73.93% beat CDW's return on equity.
Vipshop pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Vipshop pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CDW pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CDW has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Vipshop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Vipshop presently has a consensus price target of $21.13, suggesting a potential upside of 32.91%. CDW has a consensus price target of $242.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.11%. Given CDW's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Vipshop is more favorable than CDW.
48.8% of Vipshop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.5% of Vipshop shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CDW shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vipshop has a beta of 0.41, indicating that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CDW has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vipshop received 48 more outperform votes than CDW when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.52% of users gave CDW an outperform vote while only 67.88% of users gave Vipshop an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vipshop had 4 more articles in the media than CDW. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Vipshop and 4 mentions for CDW. CDW's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Vipshop's score of 0.57 indicating that Vipshop is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Vipshop beats CDW on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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