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GEN vs. SNOW, CRWV, NET, TEAM, DDOG, VEEV, ZS, XYZ, EA, and TTD

Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Snowflake (SNOW), CoreWeave (CRWV), Cloudflare (NET), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Zscaler (ZS), Block (XYZ), Electronic Arts (EA), and Trade Desk (TTD). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Gen Digital vs. Its Competitors

Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) are both large-cap computer software companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Gen Digital has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snowflake has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Gen Digital presently has a consensus target price of $33.60, suggesting a potential upside of 9.52%. Snowflake has a consensus target price of $226.73, suggesting a potential upside of 6.70%. Given Gen Digital's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Gen Digital is more favorable than Snowflake.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Gen Digital
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
Snowflake
2 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
33 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Snowflake. Snowflake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Gen Digital$3.94B4.84$643M$1.0429.50
Snowflake$3.63B19.56-$1.29B-$4.21-50.48

In the previous week, Snowflake had 25 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Snowflake and 20 mentions for Gen Digital. Snowflake's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.49 indicating that Snowflake is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Gen Digital
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Snowflake
31 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.1% of Snowflake shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Gen Digital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.8% of Snowflake shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.34% compared to Snowflake's net margin of -36.43%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 59.38% beat Snowflake's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Gen Digital16.34% 59.38% 8.16%
Snowflake -36.43%-37.75%-14.59%

Summary

Gen Digital beats Snowflake 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.
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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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GEN vs. The Competition

MetricGen DigitalTechnology Services IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$18.93B$2.47B$14.25B$9.42B
Dividend Yield1.64%1.51%2.76%3.99%
P/E Ratio29.5030.7928.8920.08
Price / Sales4.8440.8551.8084.07
Price / Cash11.2543.9326.6258.45
Price / Book8.345.576.205.83
Net Income$643M$33.37M$196.19M$258.27M
7 Day Performance1.79%2.64%2.01%2.69%
1 Month Performance4.46%12.47%6.96%12.91%
1 Year Performance21.75%45.67%29.49%21.81%

Gen Digital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GEN
Gen Digital
2.9949 of 5 stars
$30.68
+0.5%
$33.60
+9.5%
+21.3%$18.93B$3.94B29.503,500Upcoming Earnings
SNOW
Snowflake
3.9655 of 5 stars
$213.22
+1.1%
$225.36
+5.7%
+60.2%$71.19B$3.63B-50.657,834Trending News
CRWV
CoreWeave
N/A$132.38
+5.2%
$81.56
-38.4%
N/A$63.54BN/A0.00881Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
NET
Cloudflare
4.0562 of 5 stars
$182.73
+0.7%
$148.92
-18.5%
+133.8%$63.34B$1.67B-794.494,263Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7562 of 5 stars
$191.61
+2.5%
$285.75
+49.1%
+15.7%$50.30B$4.36B-115.4312,157Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
DDOG
Datadog
4.3022 of 5 stars
$138.80
+1.0%
$144.27
+3.9%
+16.9%$47.93B$2.68B301.756,500Analyst Forecast
VEEV
Veeva Systems
3.9243 of 5 stars
$282.49
+2.4%
$274.17
-2.9%
+53.0%$46.16B$2.86B59.857,291Positive News
ZS
Zscaler
4.193 of 5 stars
$291.14
+0.5%
$296.82
+2.0%
+48.3%$45.33B$2.17B-1,119.777,348Positive News
XYZ
Block
3.3279 of 5 stars
$68.66
+5.4%
$73.94
+7.7%
N/A$42.23B$24.12B16.7111,372News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Options Volume
EA
Electronic Arts
4.1605 of 5 stars
$148.83
+0.1%
$162.71
+9.3%
+8.3%$37.40B$7.46B35.1014,500Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
TTD
Trade Desk
4.2429 of 5 stars
$75.43
+0.1%
$97.27
+29.0%
-16.1%$37.07B$2.44B91.993,522Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:GEN) was last updated on 7/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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