ADP vs. WDAY, VRSK, ARM, FI, WM, SPGI, TRI, TT, SPOT, and RSG
Should you be buying Automatic Data Processing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Automatic Data Processing include Workday (WDAY), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), ARM (ARM), Fiserv (FI), Waste Management (WM), S&P Global (SPGI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Trane Technologies (TT), Spotify Technology (SPOT), and Republic Services (RSG).
Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Workday presently has a consensus price target of $293.61, suggesting a potential upside of 16.96%. Automatic Data Processing has a consensus price target of $258.36, suggesting a potential upside of 6.29%. Given Automatic Data Processing's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Automatic Data Processing.
In the previous week, Workday had 5 more articles in the media than Automatic Data Processing. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Workday and 13 mentions for Automatic Data Processing. Workday's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Automatic Data Processing's score of 0.64 indicating that Automatic Data Processing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Workday received 746 more outperform votes than Automatic Data Processing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.97% of users gave Workday an outperform vote while only 58.88% of users gave Automatic Data Processing an outperform vote.
Automatic Data Processing has a net margin of 19.14% compared to Automatic Data Processing's net margin of 19.02%. Workday's return on equity of 95.22% beat Automatic Data Processing's return on equity.
Workday has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Automatic Data Processing has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Automatic Data Processing has higher revenue and earnings than Workday. Automatic Data Processing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Workday, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
89.8% of Workday shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Workday shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Workday beats Automatic Data Processing on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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