ANSS vs. TTWO, SPLK, NET, DDOG, SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, FICO, and MSTR
Should you be buying ANSYS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ANSYS include Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Splunk (SPLK), Cloudflare (NET), Datadog (DDOG), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), Fair Isaac (FICO), and MicroStrategy (MSTR).
Take-Two Interactive Software (NASDAQ:TTWO) and ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Take-Two Interactive Software presently has a consensus price target of $177.22, suggesting a potential upside of 11.65%. ANSYS has a consensus price target of $320.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.82%. Given ANSYS's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Take-Two Interactive Software is more favorable than ANSYS.
In the previous week, Take-Two Interactive Software and Take-Two Interactive Software both had 12 articles in the media. Take-Two Interactive Software's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat ANSYS's score of 0.83 indicating that ANSYS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ANSYS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Take-Two Interactive Software. Take-Two Interactive Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ANSYS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ANSYS has a net margin of 19.51% compared to ANSYS's net margin of -69.99%. Take-Two Interactive Software's return on equity of 10.45% beat ANSYS's return on equity.
Take-Two Interactive Software has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ANSYS has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Take-Two Interactive Software received 552 more outperform votes than ANSYS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.09% of users gave Take-Two Interactive Software an outperform vote while only 54.97% of users gave ANSYS an outperform vote.
95.5% of Take-Two Interactive Software shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of ANSYS shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Take-Two Interactive Software shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of ANSYS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
ANSYS beats Take-Two Interactive Software on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ANSS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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