ADBE vs. CRM, INTU, NOW, SNPS, ORCL, CDNS, SHOP, WDAY, ADSK, and FICO
Should you be buying Adobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adobe include Salesforce (CRM), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), Oracle (ORCL), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), and Fair Isaac (FICO). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) and Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) 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.
In the previous week, Salesforce had 137 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 157 mentions for Salesforce and 20 mentions for Adobe. Salesforce's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Adobe's score of 0.01 indicating that Adobe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Salesforce has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adobe has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Salesforce presently has a consensus price target of $292.79, indicating a potential upside of 24.89%. Adobe has a consensus price target of $620.72, indicating a potential upside of 39.56%. Given Salesforce's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Adobe is more favorable than Salesforce.
Salesforce received 1548 more outperform votes than Adobe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.68% of users gave Salesforce an outperform vote while only 70.77% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote.
Adobe has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Salesforce. Salesforce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adobe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.4% of Salesforce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Salesforce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Adobe's net margin of 15.30%. Salesforce's return on equity of 39.12% beat Adobe's return on equity.
Summary
Adobe beats Salesforce on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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