VRSK vs. WDAY, PEGA, FIVN, ATHM, RNG, GDRX, DADA, ADP, IT, and EFX
Should you be buying Verisk Analytics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Verisk Analytics include Workday (WDAY), Pegasystems (PEGA), Five9 (FIVN), Autohome (ATHM), RingCentral (RNG), GoodRx (GDRX), Dada Nexus (DADA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Gartner (IT), and Equifax (EFX).
Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Workday received 833 more outperform votes than Verisk Analytics when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.11% of users gave Verisk Analytics an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave Workday an outperform vote.
Workday has higher revenue and earnings than Verisk Analytics. Verisk Analytics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Verisk Analytics has a net margin of 28.45% compared to Workday's net margin of 19.02%. Verisk Analytics' return on equity of 268.19% beat Workday's return on equity.
Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workday has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Verisk Analytics presently has a consensus price target of $254.31, indicating a potential upside of 1.07%. Workday has a consensus price target of $296.64, indicating a potential upside of 15.01%. Given Workday's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Verisk Analytics.
90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Workday 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.
In the previous week, Workday had 5 more articles in the media than Verisk Analytics. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Workday and 16 mentions for Verisk Analytics. Verisk Analytics' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Workday's score of 0.47 indicating that Verisk Analytics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Workday beats Verisk Analytics on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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