IT vs. CTSH, LDOS, BAH, EPAM, CACI, DOX, TDC, HCKT, FORR, and UIS
Should you be buying Gartner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gartner include Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Leidos (LDOS), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), EPAM Systems (EPAM), CACI International (CACI), Amdocs (DOX), Teradata (TDC), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Forrester Research (FORR), and Unisys (UIS). These companies are all part of the "it consulting & other services" industry.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH) and Gartner (NYSE:IT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Gartner has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Gartner's net margin of 10.84%. Cognizant Technology Solutions' return on equity of 141.55% beat Gartner's return on equity.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gartner has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Gartner. Cognizant Technology Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cognizant Technology Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $75.75, indicating a potential upside of 1.58%. Gartner has a consensus target price of $478.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.61%. Given Cognizant Technology Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gartner is more favorable than Cognizant Technology Solutions.
92.4% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Gartner shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Gartner shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Cognizant Technology Solutions received 758 more outperform votes than Gartner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.82% of users gave Cognizant Technology Solutions an outperform vote while only 58.52% of users gave Gartner an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cognizant Technology Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than Gartner. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Cognizant Technology Solutions and 12 mentions for Gartner. Gartner's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Cognizant Technology Solutions' score of 0.71 indicating that Cognizant Technology Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Gartner beats Cognizant Technology Solutions on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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