EPAM vs. IT, LDOS, BAH, DOX, CACI, TDC, HCKT, UIS, FORR, and IBM
Should you be buying EPAM Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPAM Systems include Gartner (IT), Leidos (LDOS), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Amdocs (DOX), CACI International (CACI), Teradata (TDC), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Unisys (UIS), Forrester Research (FORR), and International Business Machines (IBM). These companies are all part of the "it consulting & other services" industry.
EPAM Systems vs.
Gartner (NYSE:IT) and EPAM Systems (NYSE:EPAM) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Gartner has a net margin of 20.00% compared to EPAM Systems' net margin of 9.61%. Gartner's return on equity of 116.56% beat EPAM Systems' return on equity.
Gartner has higher revenue and earnings than EPAM Systems. EPAM Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.5% of Gartner shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of EPAM Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Gartner shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of EPAM Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gartner has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EPAM Systems has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Gartner had 4 more articles in the media than EPAM Systems. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Gartner and 5 mentions for EPAM Systems. EPAM Systems' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Gartner's score of 0.44 indicating that EPAM Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gartner currently has a consensus price target of $518.67, indicating a potential upside of 22.42%. EPAM Systems has a consensus price target of $233.93, indicating a potential upside of 29.64%. Given EPAM Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe EPAM Systems is more favorable than Gartner.
EPAM Systems received 196 more outperform votes than Gartner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.39% of users gave EPAM Systems an outperform vote while only 58.17% of users gave Gartner an outperform vote.
Summary
Gartner and EPAM Systems tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EPAM) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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