EA vs. VEEV, SPLK, DOCU, SNPS, CRWD, CDNS, SHOP, NTES, SNOW, and PLTR
Should you be buying Electronic Arts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electronic Arts include Veeva Systems (VEEV), Splunk (SPLK), DocuSign (DOCU), Synopsys (SNPS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR).
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Veeva Systems has a net margin of 22.24% compared to Electronic Arts' net margin of 16.83%. Electronic Arts' return on equity of 18.81% beat Veeva Systems' return on equity.
Electronic Arts presently has a consensus target price of $147.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.39%. Veeva Systems has a consensus target price of $235.10, suggesting a potential upside of 20.41%. Given Veeva Systems' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Veeva Systems is more favorable than Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts has higher revenue and earnings than Veeva Systems. Electronic Arts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veeva Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Electronic Arts received 832 more outperform votes than Veeva Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.70% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 69.86% of users gave Veeva Systems an outperform vote.
90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.2% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Veeva Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Veeva Systems has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Electronic Arts had 7 more articles in the media than Veeva Systems. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Electronic Arts and 23 mentions for Veeva Systems. Electronic Arts' average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Veeva Systems' score of 0.47 indicating that Electronic Arts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Electronic Arts beats Veeva Systems on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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