CRWD vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, APP, NTES, INFY, SNOW, RBLX, NET, and CRWV
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), Infosys (INFY), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), Cloudflare (NET), and CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
CrowdStrike vs.
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 businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
SAP has a net margin of 9.17% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of 3.39%. SAP's return on equity of 12.18% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 164 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 188 mentions for CrowdStrike and 24 mentions for SAP. SAP's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat CrowdStrike's score of 0.60 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CrowdStrike presently has a consensus target price of $450.43, suggesting a potential downside of 3.01%. SAP has a consensus target price of $271.83, suggesting a potential downside of 10.96%. Given CrowdStrike's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than SAP.
SAP received 159 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.94% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 66.47% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SAP beats CrowdStrike on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CRWD) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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