SNOW vs. INTU, NOW, SNPS, CRWD, CDNS, SHOP, NTES, PLTR, ADSK, and TEAM
Should you be buying Snowflake stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snowflake include Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Autodesk (ADSK), and Atlassian (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
Snowflake has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuit has higher revenue and earnings than Snowflake. Snowflake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Snowflake had 5 more articles in the media than Intuit. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for Snowflake and 40 mentions for Intuit. Intuit's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Snowflake's score of 0.16 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Snowflake presently has a consensus target price of $200.64, suggesting a potential upside of 47.33%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $679.41, suggesting a potential upside of 17.86%. Given Snowflake's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Snowflake is more favorable than Intuit.
65.1% of Snowflake shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Snowflake shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Intuit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Intuit received 895 more outperform votes than Snowflake when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote while only 46.60% of users gave Snowflake an outperform vote.
Intuit has a net margin of 19.43% compared to Snowflake's net margin of -30.80%. Intuit's return on equity of 18.61% beat Snowflake's return on equity.
Summary
Intuit beats Snowflake on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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