NLOK vs. DT, CDAY, ESTC, NUAN, GWRE, BTX, CIDM, and ALFIW
Should you be buying NortonLifeLock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NortonLifeLock include Dynatrace (DT), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Elastic (ESTC), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics (BTX), Cinedigm (CIDM), and Alfi (ALFIW).
NortonLifeLock (NASDAQ:NLOK) and Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) are both large-cap information companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Dynatrace has a net margin of 10.81% compared to NortonLifeLock's net margin of 0.00%. Dynatrace's return on equity of 9.89% beat NortonLifeLock's return on equity.
Dynatrace received 165 more outperform votes than NortonLifeLock when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave NortonLifeLock an outperform vote while only 67.38% of users gave Dynatrace an outperform vote.
Dynatrace has a consensus price target of $61.54, indicating a potential upside of 34.58%. Given Dynatrace's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dynatrace is more favorable than NortonLifeLock.
NortonLifeLock has higher revenue and earnings than Dynatrace. NortonLifeLock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynatrace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.9% of NortonLifeLock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Dynatrace shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of NortonLifeLock shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dynatrace shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NortonLifeLock has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynatrace has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dynatrace had 6 more articles in the media than NortonLifeLock. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dynatrace and 1 mentions for NortonLifeLock. Dynatrace's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat NortonLifeLock's score of 0.00 indicating that Dynatrace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dynatrace beats NortonLifeLock on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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