INTU vs. ADBE, WFC, CRM, CDNS, ADSK, NOW, SHOP, CRWD, NTES, and SNOW
Should you be buying Intuit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuit include Adobe (ADBE), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), Salesforce (CRM), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Autodesk (ADSK), ServiceNow (NOW), Shopify (SHOP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), and Snowflake (SNOW).
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Intuit had 1 more articles in the media than Adobe. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Intuit and 26 mentions for Adobe. Adobe's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Intuit's score of 0.60 indicating that Intuit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
81.8% of Adobe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of Intuit shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Adobe shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Intuit shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Adobe has higher revenue and earnings than Intuit. Adobe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Adobe has a net margin of 24.08% compared to Adobe's net margin of 18.35%. Intuit's return on equity of 39.12% beat Adobe's return on equity.
Adobe has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuit has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Adobe presently has a consensus target price of $620.72, indicating a potential upside of 32.24%. Intuit has a consensus target price of $650.23, indicating a potential upside of 5.69%. Given Intuit's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Adobe is more favorable than Intuit.
Adobe received 556 more outperform votes than Intuit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave Adobe an outperform vote while only 68.65% of users gave Intuit an outperform vote.
Summary
Adobe beats Intuit on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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