SHOP vs. SNPS, CDNS, CRWD, NTES, TEAM, SNOW, ADSK, DDOG, NOW, and HUBS
Should you be buying Shopify stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shopify include Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Atlassian (TEAM), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), Datadog (DDOG), ServiceNow (NOW), and HubSpot (HUBS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) and Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Synopsys has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shopify has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.5% of Synopsys shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Synopsys shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Synopsys has a net margin of 22.96% compared to Synopsys' net margin of 1.87%. Shopify's return on equity of 22.88% beat Synopsys' return on equity.
Synopsys presently has a consensus target price of $601.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.86%. Shopify has a consensus target price of $78.30, indicating a potential upside of 10.28%. Given Shopify's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Synopsys is more favorable than Shopify.
Synopsys has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shopify. Synopsys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shopify, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shopify received 540 more outperform votes than Synopsys when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.09% of users gave Synopsys an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Shopify an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Shopify had 4 more articles in the media than Synopsys. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Shopify and 10 mentions for Synopsys. Shopify's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Synopsys' score of 0.66 indicating that Synopsys is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Synopsys beats Shopify on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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