SAP vs. INTU, NOW, CRM, VMW, ADBE, SNPS, NTES, CDNS, TEAM, and SNOW
Should you be buying SAP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SAP include Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Salesforce (CRM), VMware (VMW), Adobe (ADBE), Synopsys (SNPS), NetEase (NTES), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Atlassian (TEAM), and Snowflake (SNOW). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and earnings.
82.6% of Intuit shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.0% of SAP shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Intuit shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Intuit has a net margin of 16.59% compared to Intuit's net margin of 16.55%. SAP's return on equity of 16.61% beat Intuit's return on equity.
Intuit has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuit received 313 more outperform votes than SAP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.30% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote while only 65.54% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.
Intuit pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. SAP pays an annual dividend of $1.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Intuit pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SAP pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Intuit has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years and SAP has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. SAP is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Intuit presently has a consensus price target of $567.41, suggesting a potential upside of 11.81%. SAP has a consensus price target of $141.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.50%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Intuit is more favorable than SAP.
SAP has higher revenue and earnings than Intuit. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Intuit had 23 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Intuit and 12 mentions for SAP. Intuit's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat SAP's score of 0.65 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Intuit beats SAP on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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