IT vs. CTSH, BAH, LDOS, EPAM, CACI, DOX, TDC, HCKT, FORR, and UIS
Should you be buying Gartner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gartner include Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), 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.
Gartner (NYSE:IT) and Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Gartner had 4 more articles in the media than Cognizant Technology Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Gartner and 10 mentions for Cognizant Technology Solutions. Cognizant Technology Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Gartner's score of 0.73 indicating that Cognizant Technology Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.5% of Gartner shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Gartner shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Cognizant Technology Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gartner has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Cognizant Technology Solutions' net margin of 10.84%. Gartner's return on equity of 141.55% beat Cognizant Technology Solutions' return on equity.
Gartner currently has a consensus price target of $474.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.07%. Cognizant Technology Solutions has a consensus price target of $75.67, indicating a potential upside of 14.39%. Given Cognizant Technology Solutions' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cognizant Technology Solutions is more favorable than Gartner.
Gartner has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cognizant Technology Solutions has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cognizant Technology Solutions received 761 more outperform votes than Gartner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave Cognizant Technology Solutions an outperform vote while only 58.59% of users gave Gartner an outperform vote.
Cognizant Technology Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Gartner. Cognizant Technology Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gartner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gartner beats Cognizant Technology Solutions on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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