APH vs. PYPL, WDAY, INFY, CRWD, NTES, CDNS, ANET, SNPS, AMX, and RELX
Should you be buying Amphenol stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Amphenol include PayPal (PYPL), Workday (WDAY), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), NetEase (NTES), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Arista Networks (ANET), Synopsys (SNPS), América Móvil (AMX), and Relx (RELX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Amphenol (NYSE:APH) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) 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 community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Amphenol has a net margin of 15.87% compared to PayPal's net margin of 14.26%. Amphenol's return on equity of 23.85% beat PayPal's return on equity.
PayPal received 1207 more outperform votes than Amphenol when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.33% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 67.89% of users gave Amphenol an outperform vote.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Amphenol. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amphenol, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Amphenol currently has a consensus price target of $118.83, suggesting a potential downside of 1.79%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $72.73, suggesting a potential upside of 8.68%. Given PayPal's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PayPal is more favorable than Amphenol.
In the previous week, PayPal had 75 more articles in the media than Amphenol. MarketBeat recorded 100 mentions for PayPal and 25 mentions for Amphenol. Amphenol's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat PayPal's score of 0.56 indicating that Amphenol is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Amphenol has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.0% of Amphenol shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Amphenol shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Amphenol and PayPal tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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