LDOS vs. IT, CTSH, BAH, EPAM, CACI, DOX, TDC, HCKT, FORR, and UIS
Should you be buying Leidos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Leidos include Gartner (IT), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), 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.
Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) and Gartner (NYSE:IT) are both large-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Leidos presently has a consensus target price of $145.67, suggesting a potential downside of 0.54%. Gartner has a consensus target price of $474.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.95%. Given Gartner's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gartner is more favorable than Leidos.
Gartner has a net margin of 13.35% compared to Leidos' net margin of 2.04%. Gartner's return on equity of 141.55% beat Leidos' return on equity.
Leidos received 186 more outperform votes than Gartner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave Leidos an outperform vote while only 58.66% of users gave Gartner an outperform vote.
76.1% of Leidos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Gartner shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Leidos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Gartner shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gartner has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Leidos. Gartner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leidos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gartner had 23 more articles in the media than Leidos. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Gartner and 10 mentions for Leidos. Leidos' average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Gartner's score of 0.59 indicating that Leidos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Leidos has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gartner has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gartner beats Leidos on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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