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GOOGL vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, CRWD, APP, INFY, NTES, SNOW, TEAM, and RBLX

Should you be buying Alphabet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alphabet include SAP (SAP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), and Roblox (RBLX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Alphabet vs.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and dividends.

40.0% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Alphabet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Alphabet has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alphabet$359.71B5.35$100.12B$8.9717.67
SAP$35.15B10.25$3.38B$5.2256.19

Alphabet received 1989 more outperform votes than SAP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.04% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 66.35% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AlphabetOutperform Votes
2764
84.04%
Underperform Votes
525
15.96%
SAPOutperform Votes
775
66.35%
Underperform Votes
393
33.65%

Alphabet pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. SAP pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Alphabet pays out 9.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SAP pays out 35.2% 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. Alphabet has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Alphabet currently has a consensus target price of $199.75, indicating a potential upside of 26.06%. SAP has a consensus target price of $264.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.99%. Given Alphabet's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Alphabet is more favorable than SAP.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alphabet
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
26 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85
SAP
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
9 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Alphabet has a net margin of 28.60% compared to SAP's net margin of 9.17%. Alphabet's return on equity of 32.49% beat SAP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alphabet28.60% 32.49% 23.52%
SAP 9.17%12.18%7.32%

In the previous week, Alphabet had 150 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 173 mentions for Alphabet and 23 mentions for SAP. SAP's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Alphabet's score of 0.77 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alphabet
92 Very Positive mention(s)
30 Positive mention(s)
16 Neutral mention(s)
27 Negative mention(s)
4 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SAP
13 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Alphabet beats SAP on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GOOGL vs. The Competition

MetricAlphabetComputer & Data IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.92T$74.93B$24.88B$8.31B
Dividend Yield0.49%1.98%2.94%4.20%
P/E Ratio19.6863.2244.6419.66
Price / Sales5.35197.452,093.50117.32
Price / Cash19.4930.1934.9334.62
Price / Book5.945.086.704.46
Net Income$100.12B$3.40B$744.19M$248.29M
7 Day Performance-3.50%5.34%5.34%5.17%
1 Year Performance-6.04%54.93%53,030.21%7.41%

Alphabet Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GOOGL
Alphabet
4.5442 of 5 stars
$158.46
+3.7%
$199.75
+26.1%
-6.0%$1.85T$359.71B19.68190,200Gap Up
SAP
SAP
2.481 of 5 stars
$302.78
+0.3%
$264.00
-12.8%
+54.3%$372.24B$35.15B105.58112,000
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
1.5947 of 5 stars
$124.69
+0.3%
$74.71
-40.1%
+475.0%$292.66B$2.87B656.793,936Insider Trade
Gap Up
SHOP
Shopify
4.0578 of 5 stars
$99.14
-0.1%
$117.65
+18.7%
+77.0%$128.35B$8.88B63.9511,600Analyst Revision
Gap Up
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.4698 of 5 stars
$448.95
+1.9%
$403.20
-10.2%
+33.9%$111.27B$3.95B880.224,960Gap Up
APP
AppLovin
3.3929 of 5 stars
$304.10
-1.1%
$415.15
+36.5%
+302.5%$103.51B$4.71B67.071,710Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
2.3283 of 5 stars
$17.94
+0.3%
$17.48
-2.6%
+10.7%$74.29B$19.28B22.70339,500Gap Up
NTES
NetEase
3.7985 of 5 stars
$110.30
+1.1%
$112.67
+2.1%
+8.4%$70.85B$105.30B17.3232,100Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
SNOW
Snowflake
4.4942 of 5 stars
$170.07
+1.4%
$200.28
+17.8%
+14.9%$56.12B$3.63B-50.153,990Positive News
Gap Up
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7707 of 5 stars
$212.34
+1.9%
$285.29
+34.4%
+24.5%$55.58B$4.96B-158.328,810Positive News
Gap Up
RBLX
Roblox
3.0656 of 5 stars
$72.43
-2.2%
$67.27
-7.1%
+133.6%$45.52B$3.84B-49.952,130Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was last updated on 5/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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