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CrowdStrike - CRWD Competitors

$136.02
+3.28 (+2.47%)
(As of 03/21/2023 12:00 AM ET)
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Today's Range
$131.27
$136.90
50-Day Range
$97.00
$136.02
52-Week Range
$92.25
$242.00
Volume
4.72 million shs
Average Volume
5.64 million shs
Market Capitalization
$32.08 billion
P/E Ratio
N/A
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$173.14

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CrowdStrikeOutperform Votes
332
65.74%
Underperform Votes
173
34.26%
ANSYSOutperform Votes
404
57.71%
Underperform Votes
296
42.29%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CrowdStrike -8.18% -12.20% -3.62%
ANSYS 25.35% 12.22% 8.90%

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CrowdStrike
7 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ANSYS
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CrowdStrike$2.24 billion14.31-$183.24 million-$0.79-172.18
ANSYS$2.07 billion13.26$523.71 million$5.9952.49

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CrowdStrike
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
35 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88
ANSYS
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.33

Summary

ANSYS beats CrowdStrike on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CRWD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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CRWD vs. The Competition

MetricCrowdStrikePrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$32.08B$15.35B$13.19B$5.89B
Dividend YieldN/A2.00%4.17%4.46%
P/E Ratio-172.1833.25323.4212.39
Price / Sales14.317.66937.6658.21
Price / Cash294.7555.3424.1557.15
Price / Book21.5610.748.885.09
Net Income-$183.24M$274.78M$531.79M$190.42M
7 Day Performance6.26%1.37%-0.29%-0.60%
1 Month Performance20.98%-3.33%-3.80%-5.61%
1 Year Performance-33.37%-26.43%-11.48%-16.66%

CrowdStrike Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ANSS
ANSYS
2.1492 of 5 stars
$308.96
+0.2%
$286.25
-7.4%
-1.6%$26.91B$2.07B51.585,600
VEEV
Veeva Systems
2.8624 of 5 stars
$170.84
-1.3%
$204.83
+19.9%
-12.0%$26.60B$2.16B56.765,482Analyst Report
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
DDOG
Datadog
2.8189 of 5 stars
$67.54
+2.4%
$111.79
+65.5%
-54.6%$21.61B$1.68B-422.134,800
TEAM
Atlassian
2.7519 of 5 stars
$158.00
-1.2%
$218.11
+38.0%
-49.5%$40.49B$2.80B-114.498,813Insider Selling
HUBS
HubSpot
2.1121 of 5 stars
$391.08
-0.5%
$422.65
+8.1%
-20.7%$19.32B$1.73B-166.427,433Analyst Report
OKTA
Okta
2.0127 of 5 stars
$83.21
+1.7%
$84.36
+1.4%
-51.7%$18.89B$1.86B-16.095,030
ADSK
Autodesk
2.9615 of 5 stars
$195.79
-1.7%
$232.40
+18.7%
-6.0%$42.25B$5.01B51.8012,600
NET
Cloudflare
2.1538 of 5 stars
$55.25
+0.8%
$69.96
+26.6%
-51.1%$18.25B$975.24M-92.083,217Insider Selling
PAYC
Paycom Software
3.0949 of 5 stars
$277.88
-0.9%
$387.00
+39.3%
-24.7%$16.76B$1.38B57.296,349
SNOW
Snowflake
2.4924 of 5 stars
$139.58
-0.2%
$187.75
+34.5%
-39.2%$44.89B$2.07B-55.833,992
This page (NASDAQ:CRWD) was last updated on 3/21/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff