IOT vs. GDDY, LDOS, JKHY, PSN, CACI, LNW, OTEX, AUR, KD, and SAIC
Should you be buying Samsara stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Samsara include GoDaddy (GDDY), Leidos (LDOS), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Parsons (PSN), CACI International (CACI), Light & Wonder (LNW), Open Text (OTEX), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Kyndryl (KD), and Science Applications International (SAIC). These companies are all part of the "computer integrated systems design" industry.
GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) and Samsara (NYSE:IOT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
GoDaddy has higher revenue and earnings than Samsara. Samsara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GoDaddy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GoDaddy has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Samsara has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GoDaddy currently has a consensus target price of $152.25, indicating a potential upside of 5.99%. Samsara has a consensus target price of $37.17, indicating a potential downside of 0.97%. Given Samsara's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GoDaddy is more favorable than Samsara.
90.3% of GoDaddy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.4% of Samsara shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of GoDaddy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 60.0% of Samsara shares are held by 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.
GoDaddy received 859 more outperform votes than Samsara when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.13% of users gave GoDaddy an outperform vote while only 39.51% of users gave Samsara an outperform vote.
GoDaddy has a net margin of 40.38% compared to GoDaddy's net margin of -27.14%. GoDaddy's return on equity of -21.66% beat Samsara's return on equity.
In the previous week, Samsara had 7 more articles in the media than GoDaddy. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Samsara and 11 mentions for GoDaddy. Samsara's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat GoDaddy's score of 0.66 indicating that GoDaddy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
GoDaddy beats Samsara on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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