CRWD vs. CDNS, SNPS, SHOP, NTES, SNOW, TEAM, ADSK, PLTR, DDOG, and EA
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Synopsys (SNPS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), Autodesk (ADSK), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Datadog (DDOG), and Electronic Arts (EA). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS) 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 institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Cadence Design Systems has a net margin of 25.46% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of 2.92%. Cadence Design Systems' return on equity of 35.57% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cadence Design Systems had 5 more articles in the media than CrowdStrike. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Cadence Design Systems and 34 mentions for CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Cadence Design Systems' score of 0.61 indicating that CrowdStrike is being referred to more favorably in the media.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.8% of Cadence Design Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Cadence Design Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CrowdStrike currently has a consensus target price of $371.87, suggesting a potential upside of 31.57%. Cadence Design Systems has a consensus target price of $318.10, suggesting a potential upside of 13.51%. Given CrowdStrike's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than Cadence Design Systems.
Cadence Design Systems received 121 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.37% of users gave Cadence Design Systems an outperform vote while only 67.53% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadence Design Systems has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cadence Design Systems has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. Cadence Design Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cadence Design Systems beats CrowdStrike on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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