ACN vs. PDD, IBM, SPGI, UBER, MELI, TRI, CTSH, IT, LDOS, and BAH
Should you be buying Accenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accenture include PDD (PDD), International Business Machines (IBM), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Gartner (IT), Leidos (LDOS), and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH).
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both large-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
PDD has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Accenture. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PDD currently has a consensus price target of $188.33, suggesting a potential upside of 43.99%. Accenture has a consensus price target of $351.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.07%. Given Accenture's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PDD is more favorable than Accenture.
29.1% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Accenture shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PDD has a net margin of 26.93% compared to PDD's net margin of 10.79%. Accenture's return on equity of 45.04% beat PDD's return on equity.
PDD has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Accenture had 1 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Accenture and 25 mentions for PDD. Accenture's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat PDD's score of 0.46 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Accenture received 743 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Accenture an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Summary
PDD and Accenture tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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