GEN vs. TEAM, SNOW, RBLX, EA, NET, VEEV, DDOG, ZS, BIDU, and WIT
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Atlassian (TEAM), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), Electronic Arts (EA), Cloudflare (NET), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Datadog (DDOG), Zscaler (ZS), Baidu (BIDU), and Wipro (WIT). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Gen Digital vs.
Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Atlassian shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Gen Digital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.5% of Atlassian shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Atlassian had 28 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Atlassian and 7 mentions for Gen Digital. Atlassian's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.00 indicating that Atlassian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gen Digital has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlassian has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atlassian received 603 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.03% of users gave Atlassian an outperform vote while only 64.29% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.32% compared to Atlassian's net margin of -7.22%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 58.83% beat Atlassian's return on equity.
Gen Digital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Atlassian. Atlassian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gen Digital presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.36%. Atlassian has a consensus target price of $301.90, indicating a potential upside of 32.23%. Given Atlassian's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Atlassian is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Summary
Atlassian beats Gen Digital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GEN) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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