PLTR vs. SAP, SHOP, APP, CRWD, NTES, INFY, CRWV, SNOW, RBLX, and NET
Should you be buying Palantir Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palantir Technologies include SAP (SAP), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Infosys (INFY), CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Palantir Technologies vs. Its Competitors
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 18.32% compared to SAP's net margin of 16.33%. SAP's return on equity of 13.66% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.
Palantir Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $89.32, suggesting a potential downside of 34.84%. SAP has a consensus price target of $271.83, suggesting a potential downside of 5.35%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SAP is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its stock price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SAP received 687 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.44% of users gave SAP an outperform vote while only 38.75% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
SAP has higher revenue and earnings than Palantir Technologies. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 116 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 138 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 22 mentions for SAP. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat SAP's score of 0.85 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SAP beats Palantir Technologies on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ 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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This page (NASDAQ:PLTR) was last updated on 6/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
