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IT vs. CCRN, DOCU, FORR, GOOG, ICFI, ACN, APTV, TRU, TT, and CTSH

Should you be buying Gartner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gartner include Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN), Docusign (DOCU), Forrester Research (FORR), Alphabet (GOOG), ICF International (ICFI), Accenture (ACN), Aptiv (APTV), TransUnion (TRU), Trane Technologies (TT), and Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH).

Gartner vs. Its Competitors

Gartner (NYSE:IT) and Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ:CCRN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Gartner currently has a consensus target price of $507.56, indicating a potential upside of 42.24%. Cross Country Healthcare has a consensus target price of $17.93, indicating a potential upside of 31.84%. Given Gartner's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Gartner is more favorable than Cross Country Healthcare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Gartner
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.44
Cross Country Healthcare
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Gartner has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cross Country Healthcare has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Gartner has higher revenue and earnings than Cross Country Healthcare. Cross Country Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Gartner$6.30B4.36$1.25B$16.0722.20
Cross Country Healthcare$1.34B0.33-$14.56M-$0.53-25.66

Gartner has a net margin of 19.82% compared to Cross Country Healthcare's net margin of -1.41%. Gartner's return on equity of 96.70% beat Cross Country Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Gartner19.82% 96.70% 13.68%
Cross Country Healthcare -1.41%2.56%1.84%

91.5% of Gartner shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Gartner shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Cross Country Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Gartner had 21 more articles in the media than Cross Country Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Gartner and 4 mentions for Cross Country Healthcare. Gartner's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Cross Country Healthcare's score of 0.29 indicating that Gartner is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Gartner
15 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cross Country Healthcare
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Gartner beats Cross Country Healthcare on 14 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 NYSE 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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IT vs. The Competition

MetricGartnerConsulting IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$27.41B$7.44B$19.03B$21.11B
Dividend YieldN/A1.73%2.73%3.60%
P/E Ratio22.2024.7729.5328.44
Price / Sales4.362.9250.4858.65
Price / Cash21.0417.4627.3922.92
Price / Book20.316.016.264.69
Net Income$1.25B$272.15M$197.18M$995.51M
7 Day Performance0.49%-0.79%1.55%1.65%
1 Month Performance-11.75%1.63%5.45%4.54%
1 Year Performance-24.23%-8.05%26.56%9.99%

Gartner Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IT
Gartner
4.7134 of 5 stars
$356.83
+0.2%
$507.56
+42.2%
-22.7%$27.41B$6.30B22.2021,044
CCRN
Cross Country Healthcare
3.6256 of 5 stars
$13.36
+4.5%
$17.93
+34.2%
-17.5%$437.94M$1.34B-25.218,205Upcoming Earnings
DOCU
Docusign
4.7937 of 5 stars
$79.34
0.0%
$89.77
+13.1%
+45.0%$16.03B$2.98B15.006,838Positive News
FORR
Forrester Research
4.1726 of 5 stars
$9.96
+4.2%
N/A-45.8%$189.87M$422.27M-2.181,571Upcoming Earnings
GOOG
Alphabet
4.8683 of 5 stars
$191.15
+2.8%
$208.40
+9.0%
+14.7%$2.32T$350.02B21.31190,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
ICFI
ICF International
4.5298 of 5 stars
$83.19
-0.3%
$127.20
+52.9%
-38.8%$1.53B$2.02B14.279,300News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ACN
Accenture
4.988 of 5 stars
$282.46
+0.0%
$365.43
+29.4%
-14.2%$176.91B$64.90B22.49774,000Positive News
APTV
Aptiv
4.9037 of 5 stars
$69.00
+1.2%
$81.63
+18.3%
+4.6%$15.02B$19.64B11.42141,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TRU
TransUnion
4.5815 of 5 stars
$92.25
-1.5%
$110.64
+19.9%
+18.4%$18.00B$4.18B49.0713,400Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
TT
Trane Technologies
4.4958 of 5 stars
$442.70
-1.0%
$441.40
-0.3%
+46.6%$98.73B$19.84B36.8345,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
CTSH
Cognizant Technology Solutions
4.9021 of 5 stars
$75.42
-0.3%
$86.18
+14.3%
+4.7%$37.18B$19.74B15.88336,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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