NTES vs. SNOW, SHOP, CDNS, CRWD, TEAM, ADSK, SNPS, DDOG, VEEV, and HUBS
Should you be buying NetEase stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NetEase include Snowflake (SNOW), Shopify (SHOP), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), Autodesk (ADSK), Synopsys (SNPS), Datadog (DDOG), Veeva Systems (VEEV), and HubSpot (HUBS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
11.1% of NetEase shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.1% of Snowflake shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.7% of NetEase shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.3% of Snowflake shares are owned 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.
NetEase has higher revenue and earnings than Snowflake. Snowflake is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NetEase, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NetEase currently has a consensus target price of $126.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.03%. Snowflake has a consensus target price of $202.43, indicating a potential upside of 25.06%. Given Snowflake's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Snowflake is more favorable than NetEase.
NetEase has a net margin of 28.39% compared to Snowflake's net margin of -29.79%. NetEase's return on equity of 24.36% beat Snowflake's return on equity.
NetEase received 494 more outperform votes than Snowflake when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.06% of users gave NetEase an outperform vote while only 45.24% of users gave Snowflake an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Snowflake had 37 more articles in the media than NetEase. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Snowflake and 11 mentions for NetEase. NetEase's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Snowflake's score of 0.38 indicating that NetEase is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NetEase has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snowflake has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
NetEase beats Snowflake on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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