APP vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, CRWD, INFY, TEAM, NTES, TTD, SNOW, and DDOG
Should you be buying AppLovin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppLovin include SAP (SAP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Infosys (INFY), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Trade Desk (TTD), Snowflake (SNOW), and Datadog (DDOG). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
AppLovin vs.
AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, AppLovin had 14 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for AppLovin and 45 mentions for SAP. AppLovin's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat SAP's score of 0.66 indicating that AppLovin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AppLovin has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AppLovin has a net margin of 26.85% compared to SAP's net margin of 8.15%. AppLovin's return on equity of 122.24% beat SAP's return on equity.
SAP has higher revenue and earnings than AppLovin. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppLovin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
41.9% of AppLovin shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of AppLovin shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AppLovin presently has a consensus target price of $366.29, suggesting a potential upside of 0.74%. SAP has a consensus target price of $276.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.66%. Given AppLovin's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe AppLovin is more favorable than SAP.
SAP received 648 more outperform votes than AppLovin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.09% of users gave SAP an outperform vote while only 57.00% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote.
Summary
AppLovin beats SAP on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:APP) was last updated on 1/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
