Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Vs. INTU, NOW, NTES, ATVI, SQ, SNPS, SHOP, SNOW, ADSK, and VMW
Should you be buying Datadog stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Datadog include Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), NetEase (NTES), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Square (SQ), Synopsys (SNPS), Shopify (SHOP), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), and VMware (VMW). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Datadog vs.
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Datadog presently has a consensus target price of $180.39, suggesting a potential upside of 90.30%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $601.42, suggesting a potential upside of 63.53%. Given Datadog's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Datadog is more favorable than Intuit.
Datadog has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intuit had 3 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Intuit and 15 mentions for Datadog. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Intuit's score of 0.36 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intuit has higher revenue and earnings than Datadog. Datadog is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.2% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.2% of Datadog shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Intuit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intuit has a net margin of 19.03% compared to Datadog's net margin of 0.17%. Intuit's return on equity of 20.37% beat Datadog's return on equity.
Intuit received 838 more outperform votes than Datadog when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.15% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote while only 70.66% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote.
Summary
Intuit beats Datadog on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DDOG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) vs. Its Competitors
