PSN vs. IOT, GDDY, LDOS, JKHY, CACI, LNW, OTEX, SAIC, KD, and AUR
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Samsara (IOT), GoDaddy (GDDY), Leidos (LDOS), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), CACI International (CACI), Light & Wonder (LNW), Open Text (OTEX), Science Applications International (SAIC), Kyndryl (KD), and Aurora Innovation (AUR). These companies are all part of the "computer integrated systems design" industry.
Samsara (NYSE:IOT) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Samsara currently has a consensus target price of $32.60, suggesting a potential downside of 1.87%. Parsons has a consensus target price of $83.10, suggesting a potential upside of 9.82%. Given Samsara's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Parsons is more favorable than Samsara.
Samsara has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Parsons has a net margin of 0.49% compared to Parsons' net margin of -30.59%. Samsara's return on equity of 11.27% beat Parsons' return on equity.
Parsons received 77 more outperform votes than Samsara when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave Samsara an outperform vote.
Parsons has higher revenue and earnings than Samsara. Samsara is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.4% of Samsara shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Parsons shares are held by institutional investors. 66.1% of Samsara shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 56.0% of Parsons shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Parsons had 1 more articles in the media than Samsara. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Parsons and 18 mentions for Samsara. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Samsara's score of 0.27 indicating that Samsara is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Parsons beats Samsara on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PSN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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