KD vs. GDDY, LDOS, IOT, JKHY, PSN, CACI, LNW, OTEX, SAIC, and AUR
Should you be buying Kyndryl stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kyndryl include GoDaddy (GDDY), Leidos (LDOS), Samsara (IOT), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Parsons (PSN), CACI International (CACI), Light & Wonder (LNW), Open Text (OTEX), Science Applications International (SAIC), and Aurora Innovation (AUR). These companies are all part of the "computer integrated systems design" industry.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.
71.5% of Kyndryl shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of GoDaddy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of GoDaddy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GoDaddy has a net margin of 40.38% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -2.12%. Kyndryl's return on equity of -4.11% beat GoDaddy's return on equity.
GoDaddy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kyndryl. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GoDaddy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kyndryl has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GoDaddy has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kyndryl presently has a consensus target price of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.53%. GoDaddy has a consensus target price of $149.92, indicating a potential upside of 5.52%. Given Kyndryl's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kyndryl is more favorable than GoDaddy.
In the previous week, GoDaddy had 30 more articles in the media than Kyndryl. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for GoDaddy and 7 mentions for Kyndryl. Kyndryl's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat GoDaddy's score of 0.45 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GoDaddy received 882 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.09% of users gave GoDaddy an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
Summary
GoDaddy beats Kyndryl on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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