PLTR vs. INTU, NOW, SNPS, CDNS, SHOP, CRWD, NTES, SNOW, ADSK, and TEAM
Should you be buying Palantir Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palantir Technologies include Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Synopsys (SNPS), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Autodesk (ADSK), and Atlassian (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Intuit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Intuit has higher revenue and earnings than Palantir Technologies. Intuit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intuit has a net margin of 19.43% compared to Palantir Technologies' net margin of 12.79%. Intuit's return on equity of 18.61% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.
Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.76, indicating that its share price is 176% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuit received 1005 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote while only 44.91% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intuit had 3 more articles in the media than Palantir Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Intuit and 37 mentions for Palantir Technologies. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Intuit's score of 0.38 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Palantir Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $20.65, indicating a potential downside of 4.65%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $679.41, indicating a potential upside of 17.86%. Given Intuit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intuit is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
Summary
Intuit beats Palantir Technologies on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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