GOOGL vs. SAP, PLTR, SHOP, CRWD, APP, INFY, NTES, TEAM, SNOW, and EA
Should you be buying Alphabet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alphabet include SAP (SAP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Atlassian (TEAM), Snowflake (SNOW), and Electronic Arts (EA). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Alphabet vs.
SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) 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 risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
SAP has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphabet has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphabet has higher revenue and earnings than SAP. Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SAP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SAP currently has a consensus price target of $248.83, indicating a potential downside of 5.24%. Alphabet has a consensus price target of $205.49, indicating a potential upside of 29.38%. Given Alphabet's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than SAP.
Alphabet received 1979 more outperform votes than SAP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.17% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 66.21% of users gave SAP an outperform vote.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of SAP shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.6% of Alphabet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alphabet has a net margin of 28.60% compared to SAP's net margin of 9.17%. Alphabet's return on equity of 32.49% beat SAP's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 233 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 254 mentions for Alphabet and 21 mentions for SAP. SAP's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Alphabet's score of 0.99 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SAP pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Alphabet pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. SAP pays out 64.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alphabet pays out 9.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Alphabet beats SAP on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
