CRM vs. ADBE, INTU, SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, FICO, MSTR, ANSS, and TYL
Should you be buying Salesforce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Salesforce include Adobe (ADBE), Intuit (INTU), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), Fair Isaac (FICO), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), and Tyler Technologies (TYL). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
Adobe has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Salesforce. Salesforce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Adobe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Salesforce had 137 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 157 mentions for Salesforce and 20 mentions for Adobe. Salesforce's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Adobe's score of 0.01 indicating that Adobe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Salesforce received 1548 more outperform votes than Adobe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.68% of users gave Salesforce an outperform vote while only 70.77% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Adobe's net margin of 15.30%. Salesforce's return on equity of 39.12% beat Adobe's return on equity.
81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Salesforce shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Salesforce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Adobe presently has a consensus price target of $620.72, suggesting a potential upside of 39.56%. Salesforce has a consensus price target of $292.79, suggesting a potential upside of 24.89%. Given Salesforce's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Adobe is more favorable than Salesforce.
Adobe has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Salesforce has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Adobe beats Salesforce on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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