GEN vs. DT, DOCU, PATH, ESTC, CYBR, OKTA, PCOR, DUOL, CDAY, and GWRE
Should you be buying Gen Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gen Digital include Dynatrace (DT), DocuSign (DOCU), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Okta (OKTA), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Duolingo (DUOL), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), and Guidewire Software (GWRE). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Gen Digital (NASDAQ:GEN) and Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
In the previous week, Gen Digital had 9 more articles in the media than Dynatrace. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Gen Digital and 10 mentions for Dynatrace. Dynatrace's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Gen Digital's score of 0.23 indicating that Dynatrace is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gen Digital has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynatrace has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gen Digital has a net margin of 36.84% compared to Dynatrace's net margin of 14.44%. Gen Digital's return on equity of 47.34% beat Dynatrace's return on equity.
Dynatrace received 146 more outperform votes than Gen Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.61% of users gave Dynatrace an outperform vote while only 64.49% of users gave Gen Digital an outperform vote.
81.4% of Gen Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Dynatrace shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Gen Digital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Dynatrace shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dynatrace has a consensus target price of $61.00, suggesting a potential upside of 32.18%. Given Dynatrace's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dynatrace is more favorable than Gen Digital.
Gen Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Dynatrace. Gen Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynatrace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dynatrace beats Gen Digital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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