EA vs. VEEV, SPLK, DOCU, SNPS, CRWD, CDNS, SHOP, NTES, SNOW, and PLTR
Should you be buying Electronic Arts stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Electronic Arts include Veeva Systems (VEEV), Splunk (SPLK), DocuSign (DOCU), Synopsys (SNPS), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR).
Veeva Systems (NYSE:VEEV) and Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Electronic Arts received 828 more outperform votes than Veeva Systems when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.70% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 69.63% of users gave Veeva Systems an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Veeva Systems had 23 more articles in the media than Electronic Arts. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Veeva Systems and 15 mentions for Electronic Arts. Veeva Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Electronic Arts' score of 0.19 indicating that Electronic Arts is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Veeva Systems currently has a consensus price target of $228.65, indicating a potential upside of 31.22%. Electronic Arts has a consensus price target of $147.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.63%. Given Electronic Arts' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Veeva Systems is more favorable than Electronic Arts.
88.2% of Veeva Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Veeva Systems shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are held by 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.
Veeva Systems has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Veeva Systems has a net margin of 22.34% compared to Veeva Systems' net margin of 16.83%. Veeva Systems' return on equity of 18.81% beat Electronic Arts' return on equity.
Electronic Arts has higher revenue and earnings than Veeva Systems. Electronic Arts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Veeva Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Electronic Arts beats Veeva Systems on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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