GEN vs. DT, DOCU, PATH, CDAY, PCOR, CYBR, OKTA, ESTC, LDOS, and GWRE
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Dynatrace (DT), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Procore Technologies (PCOR), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Okta (OKTA), Elastic (ESTC), Leidos (LDOS), and Guidewire Software (GWRE).
Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Gen Digital has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynatrace has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gen Digital had 5 more articles in the media than Dynatrace. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Gen Digital and 11 mentions for Dynatrace. Dynatrace's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.10 indicating that Dynatrace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.4% of Gen Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Dynatrace shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dynatrace shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dynatrace has a consensus price target of $61.08, indicating a potential upside of 31.19%. Given Dynatrace's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dynatrace is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Dynatrace received 145 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.51% of users gave Dynatrace an outperform vote while only 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Dynatrace. Gen Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynatrace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 36.84% compared to Dynatrace's net margin of 14.44%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 47.34% beat Dynatrace's return on equity.
Summary
Dynatrace beats Gen Digital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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