CRWD vs. DDOG, EA, CRM, SAP, ADBE, INTU, NOW, SNPS, CDNS, and SHOP
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Salesforce (CRM), SAP (SAP), Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), and Shopify (SHOP). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
CrowdStrike received 183 more outperform votes than Datadog when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.67% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 36 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for CrowdStrike and 19 mentions for Datadog. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat CrowdStrike's score of 0.60 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Datadog 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.
CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $373.95, indicating a potential upside of 19.22%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $137.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.80%. Given Datadog's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Datadog is more favorable than CrowdStrike.
Datadog has a net margin of 5.11% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of 2.92%. Datadog's return on equity of 7.48% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
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.
Summary
CrowdStrike beats Datadog on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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