ADBE vs. INTU, CRM, SNPS, CDNS, NOW, ORCL, SHOP, CRWD, NTES, and QCOM
Should you be buying Adobe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Adobe include Intuit (INTU), Salesforce (CRM), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), ServiceNow (NOW), Oracle (ORCL), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), and QUALCOMM (QCOM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) 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 media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Adobe has higher revenue and earnings than Intuit. Adobe 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, Adobe had 16 more articles in the media than Intuit. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Adobe and 23 mentions for Intuit. Adobe's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Intuit's score of 0.61 indicating that Adobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Adobe received 556 more outperform votes than Intuit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote while only 68.61% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote.
Adobe presently has a consensus price target of $620.72, suggesting a potential upside of 28.61%. Intuit has a consensus price target of $650.23, suggesting a potential upside of 3.73%. Given Adobe's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Adobe is more favorable than Intuit.
81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Intuit shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Intuit's net margin of 18.35%. Adobe's return on equity of 39.12% beat Intuit's return on equity.
Adobe has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more 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.
Summary
Adobe beats Intuit on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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