CRWD vs. ANSS, VEEV, DDOG, TEAM, HUBS, OKTA, ADSK, NET, PAYC, and SNOW
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include ANSYS (ANSS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Datadog (DDOG), Atlassian (TEAM), HubSpot (HUBS), Okta (OKTA), Autodesk (ADSK), Cloudflare (NET), Paycom Software (PAYC), and Snowflake (SNOW). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
CrowdStrike vs.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) 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 dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
ANSYS received 72 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.74% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 57.71% of users gave ANSYS an outperform vote.
ANSYS has a net margin of 25.35% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of -8.18%. ANSYS's return on equity of 12.22% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ANSYS has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 6 more articles in the media than ANSYS. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for CrowdStrike and 10 mentions for ANSYS. ANSYS's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat CrowdStrike's score of 0.56 indicating that ANSYS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
65.1% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of ANSYS shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of CrowdStrike shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of ANSYS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ANSYS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ANSYS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrowdStrike currently has a consensus target price of $173.14, suggesting a potential upside of 27.29%. ANSYS has a consensus target price of $286.25, suggesting a potential downside of 8.96%. Given CrowdStrike's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than ANSYS.
Summary
ANSYS beats CrowdStrike on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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