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$24.65 +0.24 (+0.98%)
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GEN vs. TEAM, SNOW, EA, VEEV, NET, RBLX, DDOG, WIT, BIDU, and ZS

Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Atlassian (TEAM), Snowflake (SNOW), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Cloudflare (NET), Roblox (RBLX), Datadog (DDOG), Wipro (WIT), Baidu (BIDU), and Zscaler (ZS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Gen Digital vs.

Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) 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 community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.

94.4% of Atlassian shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 38.5% of Atlassian shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Gen Digital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Atlassian has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Atlassian received 601 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.96% of users gave Atlassian an outperform vote while only 64.86% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AtlassianOutperform Votes
673
64.96%
Underperform Votes
363
35.04%
Gen DigitalOutperform Votes
72
64.86%
Underperform Votes
39
35.14%

In the previous week, Atlassian had 60 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Atlassian and 6 mentions for Gen Digital. Atlassian's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.24 indicating that Atlassian is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Atlassian
33 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Gen Digital
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.32% compared to Atlassian's net margin of -7.22%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 58.83% beat Atlassian's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Atlassian-7.22% -17.37% -3.70%
Gen Digital 16.32%58.83%7.98%

Gen Digital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atlassian. Atlassian is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Atlassian$4.79B10.98-$300.52M-$1.34-149.99
Gen Digital$3.90B3.89$616M$1.0224.17

Atlassian presently has a consensus price target of $300.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.26%. Given Atlassian's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Atlassian is more favorable than Gen Digital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Atlassian
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Gen Digital
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.50

Summary

Atlassian beats Gen Digital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GEN vs. The Competition

MetricGen DigitalPrepackaged software IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$15.19B$22.62B$6.95B$7.58B
Dividend Yield2.13%2.08%2.71%4.33%
P/E Ratio24.17104.4329.8717.79
Price / Sales3.8916.91148.1394.27
Price / Cash10.6386.0631.6134.64
Price / Book7.067.804.553.99
Net Income$616M$438.39M$196.25M$247.24M
7 Day Performance3.96%9.16%3.02%5.84%
1 Month Performance-8.81%-3.60%-6.92%-5.77%
1 Year Performance17.77%5.72%2.26%-1.97%

Gen Digital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GEN
Gen Digital
2.9427 of 5 stars
$24.65
+1.0%
N/A+16.6%$15.19B$3.90B24.172,700Short Interest ↓
TEAM
Atlassian
4.4824 of 5 stars
$186.61
-0.6%
$305.64
+63.8%
-4.0%$48.89B$4.79B-139.268,810Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Gap Down
SNOW
Snowflake
4.6425 of 5 stars
$130.75
+0.2%
$201.84
+54.4%
-8.7%$43.16B$3.63B-38.573,990Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
EA
Electronic Arts
4.3191 of 5 stars
$134.62
-0.5%
$155.30
+15.4%
+11.8%$35.08B$7.35B34.2513,700Short Interest ↓
Positive News
VEEV
Veeva Systems
4.0906 of 5 stars
$214.71
+0.5%
$256.52
+19.5%
+5.5%$34.93B$2.75B53.015,480Gap Down
NET
Cloudflare
4.6754 of 5 stars
$98.31
+1.3%
$135.64
+38.0%
+13.0%$33.93B$1.67B-446.883,220Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
RBLX
Roblox
3.512 of 5 stars
$52.41
-1.0%
$64.23
+22.5%
+49.3%$32.44B$3.60B-36.152,130Gap Up
DDOG
Datadog
4.85 of 5 stars
$88.20
+0.3%
$156.67
+77.6%
-27.8%$30.23B$2.68B172.944,800Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
WIT
Wipro
1.6193 of 5 stars
$2.85
+2.0%
N/A-48.1%$29.75B$887.93B19.62240,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
BIDU
Baidu
4.7799 of 5 stars
$79.76
-3.2%
$111.25
+39.5%
-15.2%$27.97B$133.13B8.7045,500Short Interest ↑
Positive News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ZS
Zscaler
3.9831 of 5 stars
$180.06
+3.1%
$234.94
+30.5%
+9.2%$27.86B$2.42B-720.247,348Gap Down
High Trading Volume
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This page (NASDAQ:GEN) was last updated on 4/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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