GEN vs. OKTA, CHKP, DT, DOCU, PATH, LDOS, ESTC, CYBR, PCOR, and GWRE
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Okta (OKTA), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Dynatrace (DT), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), Leidos (LDOS), Elastic (ESTC), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Procore Technologies (PCOR), and Guidewire Software (GWRE).
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA) and Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
86.6% of Okta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.4% of Gen Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Okta shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Okta had 2 more articles in the media than Gen Digital. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Okta and 11 mentions for Gen Digital. Gen Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Okta's score of 0.38 indicating that Okta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Okta has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gen Digital has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Okta presently has a consensus target price of $101.84, indicating a potential downside of 1.09%. Given Gen Digital's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Okta is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 16.16% compared to Gen Digital's net margin of -15.69%. Okta's return on equity of 49.04% beat Gen Digital's return on equity.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Okta. Okta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gen Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Okta received 462 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote while only 59.53% of users gave Okta an outperform vote.
Summary
Gen Digital beats Okta on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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