FICO vs. SNPS, CDNS, WDAY, ADSK, ANSS, MSTR, TYL, FDS, SSNC, and MANH
Should you be buying Fair Isaac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fair Isaac include Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Workday (WDAY), Autodesk (ADSK), ANSYS (ANSS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Tyler Technologies (TYL), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), and Manhattan Associates (MANH). These companies are all part of the "application software" industry.
Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) and Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Synopsys has higher revenue and earnings than Fair Isaac. Synopsys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fair Isaac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Synopsys had 5 more articles in the media than Fair Isaac. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Synopsys and 15 mentions for Fair Isaac. Fair Isaac's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Synopsys' score of 0.43 indicating that Fair Isaac is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Fair Isaac presently has a consensus target price of $1,274.33, indicating a potential downside of 1.21%. Synopsys has a consensus target price of $616.18, indicating a potential upside of 9.88%. Given Synopsys' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Synopsys is more favorable than Fair Isaac.
Synopsys received 478 more outperform votes than Fair Isaac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.21% of users gave Synopsys an outperform vote while only 60.36% of users gave Fair Isaac an outperform vote.
Fair Isaac has a net margin of 29.99% compared to Synopsys' net margin of 23.05%. Synopsys' return on equity of 22.66% beat Fair Isaac's return on equity.
85.8% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Synopsys shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Synopsys shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fair Isaac has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Synopsys has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fair Isaac and Synopsys tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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