CRWD vs. DDOG, EA, CRM, SAP, ADBE, INTU, NOW, SNPS, CDNS, and SHOP
Should you be buying CrowdStrike stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CrowdStrike include Datadog (DDOG), Electronic Arts (EA), Salesforce (CRM), SAP (SAP), Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), and Shopify (SHOP). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Datadog shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CrowdStrike received 183 more outperform votes than Datadog when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.67% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote.
CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Datadog has a net margin of 5.11% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of 2.92%. Datadog's return on equity of 7.48% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.
In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 35 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for CrowdStrike and 17 mentions for Datadog. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat CrowdStrike's score of 0.60 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CrowdStrike has higher revenue and earnings than Datadog. Datadog is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $373.95, suggesting a potential upside of 19.22%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $137.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24.80%. Given Datadog's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Datadog is more favorable than CrowdStrike.
Summary
CrowdStrike beats Datadog on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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