CRWD vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, APP, NTES, CRWV, INFY, SNOW, RBLX, and NET
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include SAP (SAP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), NetEase (NTES), CoreWeave (CRWV), American Noble Gas (INFY), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
CrowdStrike vs. Its Competitors
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.
CrowdStrike currently has a consensus target price of $453.88, indicating a potential downside of 10.88%. SAP has a consensus target price of $271.83, indicating a potential downside of 10.75%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SAP is more favorable than CrowdStrike.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 77 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 95 mentions for CrowdStrike and 18 mentions for SAP. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat SAP's score of 0.98 indicating that CrowdStrike is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SAP has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SAP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SAP has a net margin of 16.33% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of -4.17%. SAP's return on equity of 13.66% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
Summary
SAP beats CrowdStrike on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NASDAQ:CRWD) was last updated on 6/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
