GEN vs. INFY, CRWV, DDOG, EA, BIDU, VEEV, ZS, XYZ, TEAM, and NBIS
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include American Noble Gas (INFY), CoreWeave (CRWV), Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Baidu (BIDU), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Zscaler (ZS), Block (XYZ), Atlassian (TEAM), and Nebius Group (NBIS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Gen Digital vs. Its Competitors
American Noble Gas (NYSE:INFY) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) are both large-cap computer software companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
American Noble Gas pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Gen Digital pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. American Noble Gas pays out 57.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gen Digital pays out 51.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
American Noble Gas has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
American Noble Gas presently has a consensus target price of $17.18, indicating a potential upside of 2.57%. Gen Digital has a consensus target price of $35.71, indicating a potential upside of 31.11%. Given Gen Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gen Digital is more favorable than American Noble Gas.
American Noble Gas has higher revenue and earnings than Gen Digital. American Noble Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
16.2% of American Noble Gas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of American Noble Gas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Gen Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Noble Gas has a net margin of 16.42% compared to Gen Digital's net margin of 14.12%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 57.99% beat American Noble Gas' return on equity.
In the previous week, Gen Digital had 22 more articles in the media than American Noble Gas. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Gen Digital and 1 mentions for American Noble Gas. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat American Noble Gas' score of 0.50 indicating that Gen Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Gen Digital beats American Noble Gas 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 GEN 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:GEN) was last updated on 10/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
