INTU vs. SNPS, CDNS, ADBE, ADSK, CRM, NOW, SAP, SHOP, NTES, and SNOW
Should you be buying Intuit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuit include Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Adobe (ADBE), Autodesk (ADSK), Salesforce (CRM), ServiceNow (NOW), SAP (SAP), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), and Snowflake (SNOW). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Intuit vs.
Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
84.7% of Synopsys shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Synopsys shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Intuit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Synopsys presently has a consensus price target of $434.70, suggesting a potential downside of 0.93%. Intuit has a consensus price target of $491.35, suggesting a potential upside of 13.86%. Given Intuit's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Intuit is more favorable than Synopsys.
Synopsys has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Intuit had 2 more articles in the media than Synopsys. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Intuit and 18 mentions for Synopsys. Intuit's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Synopsys' score of 0.48 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intuit received 255 more outperform votes than Synopsys when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.83% of users gave Synopsys an outperform vote while only 69.06% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote.
Intuit has higher revenue and earnings than Synopsys. Intuit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Synopsys, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Synopsys has a net margin of 17.41% compared to Intuit's net margin of 15.91%. Intuit's return on equity of 16.50% beat Synopsys' return on equity.
Summary
Intuit beats Synopsys on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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