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Salesforce (CRM) Competitors

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$325.70 +2.27 (+0.70%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

CRM vs. ADBE, INTU, MSTR, CDNS, SNPS, WDAY, ADSK, FICO, ANSS, and TYL

Should you be buying Salesforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Salesforce include Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Synopsys (SNPS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), Fair Isaac (FICO), ANSYS (ANSS), and Tyler Technologies (TYL). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.

Salesforce vs.

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

Salesforce presently has a consensus price target of $326.19, indicating a potential upside of 0.15%. Adobe has a consensus price target of $606.40, indicating a potential upside of 21.40%. Given Adobe's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Adobe is more favorable than Salesforce.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Salesforce
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
27 Buy rating(s)
4 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90
Adobe
2 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Salesforce$34.86B8.93$4.14B$5.7556.64
Adobe$19.41B11.33$5.43B$11.8442.19

Adobe has a net margin of 25.59% compared to Salesforce's net margin of 15.44%. Adobe's return on equity of 42.82% beat Salesforce's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Salesforce15.44% 12.01% 7.45%
Adobe 25.59%42.82%22.20%

80.4% of Salesforce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.8% of Adobe shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Salesforce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Adobe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Salesforce had 20 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 82 mentions for Salesforce and 62 mentions for Adobe. Salesforce's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Adobe's score of 1.06 indicating that Salesforce is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Salesforce
52 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Adobe
45 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Salesforce received 1553 more outperform votes than Adobe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.55% of users gave Salesforce an outperform vote while only 70.76% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SalesforceOutperform Votes
3213
82.55%
Underperform Votes
679
17.45%
AdobeOutperform Votes
1660
70.76%
Underperform Votes
686
29.24%

Salesforce has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adobe has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Salesforce beats Adobe on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CRM vs. The Competition

MetricSalesforcePrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$311.37B$25.00B$23.64B$19.87B
Dividend Yield0.49%2.33%2.77%3.52%
P/E Ratio56.6493.80269.7642.95
Price / Sales8.938.043,234.5919.16
Price / Cash26.5687.3932.4517.86
Price / Book5.2911.017.365.52
Net Income$4.14B$444.73M$660.95M$986.45M
7 Day Performance-1.77%-0.07%0.24%0.45%
1 Month Performance11.80%4.17%0.82%1.05%
1 Year Performance45.17%23.90%18.79%24.67%

Salesforce Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CRM
Salesforce
4.6388 of 5 stars
$325.70
+0.7%
$326.19
+0.2%
+44.7%$311.37B$34.86B56.6472,682Analyst Forecast
Positive News
ADBE
Adobe
4.6653 of 5 stars
$499.50
0.0%
$606.40
+21.4%
-18.5%$219.88B$19.41B42.1929,945Analyst Revision
Positive News
INTU
Intuit
4.8964 of 5 stars
$650.60
+1.0%
$737.06
+13.3%
+15.3%$180.45B$16.29B62.2618,800Analyst Forecast
Positive News
MSTR
MicroStrategy
4.035 of 5 stars
$473.83
+10.1%
$289.88
-38.8%
+831.8%$87.25B$496.26M0.001,934Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CDNS
Cadence Design Systems
4.6085 of 5 stars
$304.01
+1.5%
$326.00
+7.2%
+12.5%$82.18B$4.35B79.7911,200Positive News
SNPS
Synopsys
4.8617 of 5 stars
$541.56
+1.4%
$649.82
+20.0%
+0.0%$82.03B$5.84B56.1820,300Positive News
WDAY
Workday
4.8913 of 5 stars
$259.44
-0.2%
$289.46
+11.6%
+9.5%$68.87B$7.26B45.2018,800Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Positive News
ADSK
Autodesk
4.3746 of 5 stars
$307.84
+0.9%
$302.38
-1.8%
+40.1%$66.19B$5.50B62.9514,100Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
FICO
Fair Isaac
4.5865 of 5 stars
$2,309.60
+1.1%
$1,964.92
-14.9%
+119.4%$56.24B$1.72B112.943,586
ANSS
ANSYS
3.8871 of 5 stars
$342.24
+0.8%
$342.50
+0.1%
+13.2%$29.93B$2.47B52.816,200Short Interest ↑
Positive News
TYL
Tyler Technologies
4.6848 of 5 stars
$601.14
+0.2%
$642.62
+6.9%
+45.9%$25.67B$1.95B109.707,300Analyst Downgrade
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:CRM) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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