CrowdStrike (CRWD) Competitors

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CRWD or SAP?

SAP received 213 more outperform votes than CrowdStrike when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.24% of users gave CrowdStrike an outperform vote while only 66.21% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CrowdStrike	Outperform Votes 557 70.24%	Underperform Votes 236 29.76%
SAP	Outperform Votes 770 66.21%	Underperform Votes 393 33.79%

Do analysts rate CRWD or SAP?

CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $383.08, indicating a potential downside of 9.76%. SAP has a consensus price target of $248.83, indicating a potential downside of 13.02%. Given CrowdStrike's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than SAP.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CrowdStrike	1 Sell rating(s)	11 Hold rating(s)	29 Buy rating(s)	3 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.77
SAP	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more volatility & risk, CRWD or SAP?

CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CRWD or SAP more profitable?

SAP has a net margin of 9.17% compared to CrowdStrike's net margin of 3.39%. SAP's return on equity of 12.18% beat CrowdStrike's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CrowdStrike	3.39%	7.11%	2.72%
SAP	9.17%	12.18%	7.32%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of CRWD or SAP?

71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are owned by 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.

Does the media refer more to CRWD or SAP?

In the previous week, CrowdStrike had 65 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 89 mentions for CrowdStrike and 24 mentions for SAP. CrowdStrike's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat SAP's score of 0.89 indicating that CrowdStrike is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CrowdStrike	64 Very Positive mention(s)	6 Positive mention(s)	14 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
SAP	15 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	7 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, CRWD or SAP?

SAP has higher revenue and earnings than CrowdStrike. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CrowdStrike, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CrowdStrike	$3.06B	34.22	$89.33M	$0.51	832.42
SAP	$36.99B	9.50	$3.38B	$2.87	99.68

Summary

SAP beats CrowdStrike on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.