EA vs. SHOP, CRWD, APP, CRWV, NTES, INFY, SNOW, RBLX, NET, and TEAM
Should you be buying Electronic Arts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electronic Arts include Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), AppLovin (APP), CoreWeave (CRWV), NetEase (NTES), American Noble Gas (INFY), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), Cloudflare (NET), and Atlassian (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Electronic Arts vs. Its Competitors
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) and Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) are both large-cap computer software companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.
Shopify presently has a consensus target price of $115.66, indicating a potential upside of 0.27%. Electronic Arts has a consensus target price of $162.80, indicating a potential upside of 1.94%. Given Electronic Arts' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Electronic Arts is more favorable than Shopify.
Shopify has a beta of 2.63, suggesting that its share price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Electronic Arts 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.
Shopify has a net margin of 22.74% compared to Electronic Arts' net margin of 15.02%. Electronic Arts' return on equity of 18.73% beat Shopify's return on equity.
In the previous week, Electronic Arts had 11 more articles in the media than Shopify. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Electronic Arts and 38 mentions for Shopify. Shopify's average media sentiment score of 1.31 beat Electronic Arts' score of 0.83 indicating that Shopify is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shopify has higher revenue and earnings than Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shopify, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Shopify beats Electronic Arts on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding EA 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.
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This page (NASDAQ:EA) was last updated on 7/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
