CRWD vs. DDOG, EA, ADBE, CRM, INTU, NOW, SNPS, SHOP, CDNS, and PLTR
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Adobe (ADBE), Salesforce (CRM), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), Shopify (SHOP), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
CrowdStrike has higher revenue and earnings than Datadog. Datadog is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Datadog has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Datadog shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 177 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 198 mentions for CrowdStrike and 21 mentions for Datadog. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Datadog's score of -0.26 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Datadog has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Datadog's net margin of 4.01%. CrowdStrike's return on equity of 7.48% beat Datadog's return on equity.
Datadog presently has a consensus price target of $138.21, suggesting a potential upside of 16.82%. CrowdStrike has a consensus price target of $359.16, suggesting a potential upside of 40.21%. Given Datadog's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than Datadog.
CrowdStrike received 205 more outperform votes than Datadog when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.10% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 64.68% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote.
Summary
CrowdStrike beats Datadog on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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