CDW vs. VIPS, VEEV, HUBS, CTSH, VRT, BIDU, CSGP, MPWR, NET, and SE
Should you be buying CDW stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CDW include Vipshop (VIPS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Vertiv (VRT), Baidu (BIDU), CoStar Group (CSGP), Monolithic Power Systems (MPWR), Cloudflare (NET), and SEA (SE). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CDW (NASDAQ:CDW) and Vipshop (NYSE:VIPS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and profitability.
93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.8% of Vipshop shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of CDW shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.5% of Vipshop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
CDW has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vipshop has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CDW presently has a consensus target price of $242.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.17%. Vipshop has a consensus target price of $21.13, suggesting a potential upside of 34.35%. Given Vipshop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Vipshop is more favorable than CDW.
CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Vipshop pays an annual dividend of $0.41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. CDW pays out 30.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vipshop pays out 20.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Vipshop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Vipshop received 48 more outperform votes than CDW when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.52% of users gave CDW an outperform vote while only 67.88% of users gave Vipshop an outperform vote.
In the previous week, CDW and CDW both had 7 articles in the media. Vipshop's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat CDW's score of 0.66 indicating that Vipshop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vipshop has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CDW. Vipshop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CDW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vipshop has a net margin of 7.20% compared to CDW's net margin of 5.17%. CDW's return on equity of 73.93% beat Vipshop's return on equity.
Summary
Vipshop beats CDW on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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