Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) Vs. ADBE, CRM, INTU, ADSK, SNPS, CDNS, ANSS, SSNC, TYL, and NUAN
Should you be buying Workday stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workday include Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), Intuit (INTU), Autodesk (ADSK), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), ANSYS (ANSS), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Tyler Technologies (TYL), and Nuance Communications (NUAN). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Workday vs.
Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
68.7% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.5% of salesforce.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.1% of Workday shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of salesforce.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Workday presently has a consensus price target of $332.70, suggesting a potential upside of 47.10%. salesforce.com has a consensus price target of $324.61, suggesting a potential upside of 52.59%. Given salesforce.com's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe salesforce.com is more favorable than Workday.
salesforce.com has higher revenue and earnings than Workday. salesforce.com is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
salesforce.com received 1748 more outperform votes than Workday when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 86.91% of users gave salesforce.com an outperform vote while only 67.72% of users gave Workday an outperform vote.
Workday has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, salesforce.com has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, salesforce.com had 22 more articles in the media than Workday. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for salesforce.com and 9 mentions for Workday. salesforce.com's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Workday's score of -0.05 indicating that salesforce.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
salesforce.com has a net margin of 6.96% compared to Workday's net margin of 0.63%. salesforce.com's return on equity of 5.71% beat Workday's return on equity.
Summary
salesforce.com beats Workday on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding WDAY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) vs. Its Competitors
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