PLTR vs. SAP, APP, SHOP, CRWD, NTES, INFY, CRWV, SNOW, RBLX, and NET
Should you be buying Palantir Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palantir Technologies include SAP (SAP), AppLovin (APP), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Infosys (INFY), CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Palantir Technologies vs.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
SAP has higher revenue and earnings than Palantir Technologies. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Palantir Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $83.95, indicating a potential downside of 36.19%. SAP has a consensus price target of $271.83, indicating a potential downside of 10.40%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SAP is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 134 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 157 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 23 mentions for SAP. SAP's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Palantir Technologies' score of 0.96 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 16.13% compared to SAP's net margin of 9.17%. SAP's return on equity of 12.18% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.
Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.64, suggesting that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SAP received 687 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.47% of users gave SAP an outperform vote while only 38.66% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
SAP beats Palantir Technologies on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PLTR) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
