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$259.57 +0.42 (+0.16%)
As of 04/14/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

SAP vs. PLTR, SHOP, CRWD, APP, INFY, NTES, TEAM, SNOW, EA, and VEEV

Should you be buying SAP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SAP include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Atlassian (TEAM), Snowflake (SNOW), Electronic Arts (EA), and Veeva Systems (VEEV). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

SAP vs.

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.74, suggesting that its stock price is 174% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

SAP received 679 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.21% of users gave SAP an outperform vote while only 40.44% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Palantir TechnologiesOutperform Votes
91
40.44%
Underperform Votes
134
59.56%
SAPOutperform Votes
770
66.21%
Underperform Votes
393
33.79%

Palantir Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $74.95, indicating a potential downside of 19.08%. SAP has a consensus price target of $248.83, indicating a potential downside of 4.14%. Given SAP's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SAP is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Palantir Technologies
5 Sell rating(s)
15 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.96
SAP
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

SAP has higher revenue and earnings than Palantir Technologies. SAP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Palantir Technologies$2.87B75.81$462.19M$0.19487.47
SAP$34.18B9.33$3.38B$2.8790.44

Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 16.13% compared to SAP's net margin of 9.17%. SAP's return on equity of 12.18% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Palantir Technologies16.13% 6.85% 5.48%
SAP 9.17%12.18%7.32%

45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of SAP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 118 more articles in the media than SAP. MarketBeat recorded 142 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 24 mentions for SAP. SAP's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Palantir Technologies' score of 1.01 indicating that SAP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Palantir Technologies
87 Very Positive mention(s)
14 Positive mention(s)
28 Neutral mention(s)
9 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SAP
20 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

SAP beats Palantir Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SAP vs. The Competition

MetricSAPPrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$318.88B$22.62B$22.24B$18.52B
Dividend Yield0.67%2.08%3.01%4.25%
P/E Ratio90.44104.4339.2231.06
Price / Sales9.3316.912,147.1726.47
Price / Cash49.8386.0634.6817.54
Price / Book6.437.805.724.29
Net Income$3.38B$438.39M$738.00M$1.02B
7 Day Performance7.69%9.16%4.28%4.23%
1 Month Performance-1.69%-3.60%-5.56%-6.79%
1 Year Performance43.58%5.72%53,099.42%-0.03%

SAP Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAP
SAP
2.7615 of 5 stars
$259.57
+0.2%
$248.83
-4.1%
+43.6%$318.88B$34.18B90.44112,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
Positive News
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
1.4944 of 5 stars
$77.11
+4.2%
$75.19
-2.5%
+308.6%$181.55B$2.87B407.443,840Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
SHOP
Shopify
4.3687 of 5 stars
$78.61
+2.2%
$126.31
+60.7%
+18.2%$102.01B$8.88B50.8311,600Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.0728 of 5 stars
$324.23
+0.8%
$400.88
+23.6%
+22.5%$80.41B$3.95B636.064,960Positive News
Gap Up
APP
AppLovin
4.0616 of 5 stars
$233.07
+6.2%
$435.47
+86.8%
+212.4%$79.68B$4.71B51.631,745Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
2.7097 of 5 stars
$16.84
+1.6%
$19.70
+17.0%
-4.1%$69.85B$19.11B21.35317,240Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Upgrade
NTES
NetEase
4.245 of 5 stars
$92.03
-6.9%
$114.57
+24.5%
+7.8%$59.06B$105.30B14.4432,100Positive News
Gap Down
TEAM
Atlassian
4.4788 of 5 stars
$185.57
-1.1%
$305.64
+64.7%
-2.7%$48.53B$4.79B-138.228,810Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Gap Down
SNOW
Snowflake
4.629 of 5 stars
$130.27
-0.2%
$201.84
+54.9%
-9.0%$43.16B$3.63B-38.573,990Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
EA
Electronic Arts
4.3212 of 5 stars
$134.67
-0.5%
$155.30
+15.3%
+13.8%$35.19B$7.35B34.3513,700Short Interest ↓
Positive News
VEEV
Veeva Systems
4.1056 of 5 stars
$214.01
+0.2%
$256.52
+19.9%
+8.3%$34.92B$2.75B53.005,480Positive News
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