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WDAY vs. ADSK, INTU, META, TEAM, ANET, CRM, HUBS, NOW, ADBE, and MSTR

Should you be buying Workday stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workday include Autodesk (ADSK), Intuit (INTU), Meta Platforms (META), Atlassian (TEAM), Arista Networks (ANET), Salesforce (CRM), HubSpot (HUBS), ServiceNow (NOW), Adobe (ADBE), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Workday vs. Its Competitors

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Autodesk has a net margin of 15.90% compared to Workday's net margin of 5.60%. Autodesk's return on equity of 50.77% beat Workday's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Workday5.60% 8.00% 4.12%
Autodesk 15.90%50.77%12.63%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Workday$8.45B7.53$526M$1.81131.51
Autodesk$6.13B10.63$1.11B$4.6765.20

89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of Autodesk shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Workday shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Autodesk shares are owned 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.

Workday currently has a consensus target price of $296.88, indicating a potential upside of 24.72%. Autodesk has a consensus target price of $342.61, indicating a potential upside of 12.53%. Given Workday's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Autodesk.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Workday
1 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Autodesk
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

In the previous week, Autodesk had 12 more articles in the media than Workday. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Autodesk and 30 mentions for Workday. Workday's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Autodesk's score of 1.32 indicating that Workday is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Workday
24 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Autodesk
27 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Workday has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Autodesk has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Autodesk beats Workday on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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WDAY vs. The Competition

MetricWorkdayINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$64.54B$18.82B$29.05B$9.53B
Dividend YieldN/A2.79%3.05%4.05%
P/E Ratio131.5177.8834.4720.08
Price / Sales7.5370.021,575.9987.55
Price / Cash62.3388.0034.5728.40
Price / Book7.028.727.565.80
Net Income$526M$341.62M$782.93M$259.24M
7 Day Performance-0.45%1.54%0.71%0.61%
1 Month Performance0.28%11.14%6.35%11.83%
1 Year Performance4.80%56.40%52,840.14%16.52%

Workday Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WDAY
Workday
4.9169 of 5 stars
$238.04
-1.5%
$296.88
+24.7%
+4.1%$64.54B$8.45B131.5120,400Positive News
ADSK
Autodesk
4.574 of 5 stars
$295.16
-0.6%
$342.61
+16.1%
+26.4%$63.16B$6.13B63.2015,300Positive News
INTU
Intuit
4.5159 of 5 stars
$763.69
+1.5%
$800.55
+4.8%
+26.1%$213.03B$18.18B61.9918,800Positive News
Analyst Forecast
META
Meta Platforms
3.9061 of 5 stars
$712.97
+1.2%
$738.37
+3.6%
+54.1%$1.79T$164.50B27.8174,067Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7463 of 5 stars
$194.36
-0.3%
$274.05
+41.0%
+13.8%$51.02B$4.36B-117.0812,157Insider Trade
ANET
Arista Networks
4.3663 of 5 stars
$111.63
-0.1%
$111.40
-0.2%
+47.3%$140.20B$7.00B47.254,412Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CRM
Salesforce
4.8943 of 5 stars
$262.31
0.0%
$348.16
+32.7%
+2.9%$250.77B$37.90B41.0576,453Positive News
Insider Trade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.8618 of 5 stars
$547.43
+0.9%
$759.04
+38.7%
+13.6%$28.87B$2.63B-1,216.518,246Analyst Downgrade
NOW
ServiceNow
4.6278 of 5 stars
$960.89
-0.3%
$1,079.58
+12.4%
+19.1%$198.89B$11.47B130.5626,293Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
ADBE
Adobe
4.8838 of 5 stars
$367.68
+0.5%
$473.88
+28.9%
-31.9%$155.97B$21.51B23.5230,709Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
MSTR
MicroStrategy
4.6179 of 5 stars
$426.28
+0.7%
$525.67
+23.3%
+130.4%$116.54B$463.46M-19.542,150Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up

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