PTC vs. DT, ESTC, GWRE, PCTY, CRWD, CDNS, SHOP, NTES, SNOW, and PLTR
Should you be buying PTC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PTC include Dynatrace (DT), Elastic (ESTC), Guidewire Software (GWRE), Paylocity (PCTY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), and Palantir Technologies (PLTR). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PTC (NASDAQ:PTC) and Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and earnings.
95.1% of PTC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Dynatrace shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of PTC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dynatrace shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PTC has a net margin of 12.84% compared to Dynatrace's net margin of 10.81%. PTC's return on equity of 13.76% beat Dynatrace's return on equity.
PTC has higher revenue and earnings than Dynatrace. PTC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynatrace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PTC has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynatrace has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PTC had 8 more articles in the media than Dynatrace. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for PTC and 7 mentions for Dynatrace. Dynatrace's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat PTC's score of 0.11 indicating that Dynatrace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PTC presently has a consensus price target of $200.64, indicating a potential upside of 13.84%. Dynatrace has a consensus price target of $61.54, indicating a potential upside of 34.58%. Given Dynatrace's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dynatrace is more favorable than PTC.
PTC received 398 more outperform votes than Dynatrace when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.93% of users gave PTC an outperform vote while only 67.38% of users gave Dynatrace an outperform vote.
Summary
PTC beats Dynatrace on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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