SE vs. A, AME, CSGP, DELL, CRWD, DDOG, TTD, CARR, CTSH, and GFS
Should you be buying SEA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEA include Agilent Technologies (A), AMETEK (AME), CoStar Group (CSGP), Dell Technologies (DELL), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Datadog (DDOG), Trade Desk (TTD), Carrier Global (CARR), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
SEA vs.
Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) and SEA (NYSE:SE) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Agilent Technologies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEA has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Agilent Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $151.35, indicating a potential upside of 29.82%. SEA has a consensus price target of $90.88, indicating a potential upside of 49.06%. Given SEA's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SEA is more favorable than Agilent Technologies.
Agilent Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SEA. SEA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agilent Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.9% of SEA shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of SEA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Agilent Technologies received 372 more outperform votes than SEA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.06% of users gave Agilent Technologies an outperform vote while only 63.06% of users gave SEA an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Agilent Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than SEA. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Agilent Technologies and 7 mentions for SEA. Agilent Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat SEA's score of 0.35 indicating that Agilent Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Agilent Technologies has a net margin of 19.19% compared to SEA's net margin of -7.83%. Agilent Technologies' return on equity of 30.11% beat SEA's return on equity.
Summary
Agilent Technologies beats SEA on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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