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SAP vs. PLTR, SHOP, APP, CRWD, INFY, NTES, SNOW, TEAM, NET, and RBLX

Should you be buying SAP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SAP include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), Cloudflare (NET), and Roblox (RBLX). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

SAP vs.

SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.

SAP has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.68, suggesting that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500.

SAP presently has a consensus target price of $264.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.59%. Palantir Technologies has a consensus target price of $83.95, suggesting a potential downside of 30.38%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SAP is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SAP
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Palantir Technologies
5 Sell rating(s)
15 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.91

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SAP$35.15B10.44$3.38B$5.2257.20
Palantir Technologies$3.12B90.79$462.19M$0.23524.26

In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 82 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 112 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 30 mentions for SAP. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat SAP's score of 0.71 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SAP
17 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Palantir Technologies
63 Very Positive mention(s)
22 Positive mention(s)
18 Neutral mention(s)
7 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

SAP received 684 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.38% of users gave SAP an outperform vote while only 38.66% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SAPOutperform Votes
776
66.38%
Underperform Votes
393
33.62%
Palantir TechnologiesOutperform Votes
92
38.66%
Underperform Votes
146
61.34%

Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 16.13% compared to SAP's net margin of 9.17%. SAP's return on equity of 12.18% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SAP9.17% 12.18% 7.32%
Palantir Technologies 16.13%6.85%5.48%

45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 7.4% of SAP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

SAP beats Palantir Technologies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SAP vs. The Competition

MetricSAPPrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$366.83B$26.25B$25.08B$19.38B
Dividend Yield0.63%1.74%2.90%3.84%
P/E Ratio104.04119.0344.6034.23
Price / Sales10.4421.692,088.0534.85
Price / Cash49.8386.0634.7817.51
Price / Book7.409.186.654.69
Net Income$3.38B$436.62M$739.99M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.70%-1.03%-0.99%-1.34%
1 Month Performance19.13%21.56%14.39%9.79%
1 Year Performance53.35%17.77%52,549.95%3.27%

SAP Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAP
SAP
2.932 of 5 stars
$298.60
-0.2%
$264.00
-11.6%
+53.3%$366.83B$35.15B104.04112,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
1.7614 of 5 stars
$117.68
+0.3%
$83.95
-28.7%
+467.8%$276.40B$3.12B620.303,936Trending News
SHOP
Shopify
4.2903 of 5 stars
$104.97
+14.4%
$115.37
+9.9%
+79.4%$136.07B$8.88B67.8011,600Trending News
High Trading Volume
APP
AppLovin
3.9117 of 5 stars
$347.73
+5.8%
$433.85
+24.8%
+326.6%$118.06B$5.14B76.491,710Trending News
Insider Trade
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.1303 of 5 stars
$426.69
+3.9%
$403.20
-5.5%
+24.5%$105.86B$3.95B837.424,960Trending News
Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
3.0439 of 5 stars
$18.71
+6.9%
$17.48
-6.6%
+6.6%$77.48B$19.28B23.68339,500Trending News
NTES
NetEase
4.2234 of 5 stars
$107.02
+3.5%
$115.14
+7.6%
+21.9%$67.81B$105.30B16.8032,100Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
SNOW
Snowflake
4.4872 of 5 stars
$180.56
+3.7%
$200.28
+10.9%
+10.2%$59.67B$3.63B-53.323,990Trending News
Analyst Forecast
TEAM
Atlassian
4.816 of 5 stars
$222.86
+7.4%
$285.29
+28.0%
+17.5%$58.40B$4.96B-166.338,810Positive News
Insider Trade
Gap Down
NET
Cloudflare
3.8646 of 5 stars
$142.16
+7.4%
$142.57
+0.3%
+110.2%$49.08B$1.67B-646.453,220Positive News
RBLX
Roblox
2.4981 of 5 stars
$73.60
+2.4%
$67.91
-7.7%
+149.6%$46.42B$3.84B-50.812,130Positive News
Insider Trade

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