CRWD vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, APP, INFY, NTES, SNOW, TEAM, NET, and RBLX
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), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), Cloudflare (NET), and Roblox (RBLX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
CrowdStrike vs.
SAP (NYSE:SAP) and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 26 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for CrowdStrike and 34 mentions for SAP. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat SAP's score of 0.76 indicating that CrowdStrike is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SAP has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% 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.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of SAP shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SAP received 180 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.87% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 66.38% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.
SAP currently has a consensus target price of $264.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.74%. CrowdStrike has a consensus target price of $403.56, indicating a potential downside of 8.75%. Given CrowdStrike's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than SAP.
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.
Summary
SAP beats CrowdStrike on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CRWD) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
