VEEV vs. ANSS, CRWD, DDOG, HUBS, OKTA, NET, TEAM, PAYC, CHKP, and SPLK
Should you be buying Veeva Systems stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Veeva Systems include ANSYS (ANSS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Datadog (DDOG), HubSpot (HUBS), Okta (OKTA), Cloudflare (NET), Atlassian (TEAM), Paycom Software (PAYC), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), and Splunk (SPLK). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Veeva Systems vs.
Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) and ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) 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 earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
ANSYS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Veeva Systems. ANSYS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veeva Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ANSYS has a net margin of 25.35% compared to Veeva Systems' net margin of 22.63%. Veeva Systems' return on equity of 12.87% beat ANSYS's return on equity.
78.8% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of ANSYS shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of ANSYS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Veeva Systems currently has a consensus target price of $204.39, indicating a potential upside of 16.41%. ANSYS has a consensus target price of $289.27, indicating a potential downside of 8.37%. Given Veeva Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Veeva Systems is more favorable than ANSYS.
Veeva Systems has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ANSYS has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Veeva Systems received 251 more outperform votes than ANSYS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.35% of users gave Veeva Systems an outperform vote while only 57.71% of users gave ANSYS an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Veeva Systems had 14 more articles in the media than ANSYS. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Veeva Systems and 9 mentions for ANSYS. ANSYS's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Veeva Systems' score of 0.24 indicating that ANSYS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Veeva Systems beats ANSYS on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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