BAH vs. CTSH, IT, LDOS, EPAM, CACI, DOX, TDC, HCKT, FORR, and UIS
Should you be buying Booz Allen Hamilton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Booz Allen Hamilton include Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Gartner (IT), Leidos (LDOS), EPAM Systems (EPAM), CACI International (CACI), Amdocs (DOX), Teradata (TDC), The Hackett Group (HCKT), Forrester Research (FORR), and Unisys (UIS). These companies are all part of the "it consulting & other services" industry.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH) and Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Cognizant Technology Solutions presently has a consensus price target of $75.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.39%. Booz Allen Hamilton has a consensus price target of $159.78, indicating a potential upside of 4.97%. Given Booz Allen Hamilton's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cognizant Technology Solutions is more favorable than Booz Allen Hamilton.
Cognizant Technology Solutions received 678 more outperform votes than Booz Allen Hamilton when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave Cognizant Technology Solutions an outperform vote while only 64.90% of users gave Booz Allen Hamilton an outperform vote.
Cognizant Technology Solutions pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Booz Allen Hamilton pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Cognizant Technology Solutions pays out 28.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Booz Allen Hamilton pays out 44.3% 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. Cognizant Technology Solutions has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Booz Allen Hamilton has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Cognizant Technology Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Booz Allen Hamilton has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has a net margin of 10.84% compared to Cognizant Technology Solutions' net margin of 5.68%. Cognizant Technology Solutions' return on equity of 68.12% beat Booz Allen Hamilton's return on equity.
92.4% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Booz Allen Hamilton shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Booz Allen Hamilton had 27 more articles in the media than Cognizant Technology Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Booz Allen Hamilton and 10 mentions for Cognizant Technology Solutions. Booz Allen Hamilton's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Cognizant Technology Solutions' score of 0.50 indicating that Cognizant Technology Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Booz Allen Hamilton. Cognizant Technology Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Booz Allen Hamilton, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cognizant Technology Solutions beats Booz Allen Hamilton on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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