FICO vs. AKAM, ZG, ETSY, DASH, PYPL, RELX, WIT, GRMN, ANSS, and HPQ
Should you be buying Fair Isaac stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fair Isaac include Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Zillow Group (ZG), Etsy (ETSY), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), Wipro (WIT), Garmin (GRMN), ANSYS (ANSS), and HP (HPQ). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) and Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
94.3% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of Fair Isaac shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Fair Isaac 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.
Akamai Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $121.60, suggesting a potential upside of 22.00%. Fair Isaac has a consensus price target of $1,224.40, suggesting a potential upside of 2.63%. Given Fair Isaac's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Akamai Technologies is more favorable than Fair Isaac.
Akamai Technologies has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fair Isaac has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Akamai Technologies had 10 more articles in the media than Fair Isaac. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Akamai Technologies and 8 mentions for Fair Isaac. Akamai Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Fair Isaac's score of 0.35 indicating that Fair Isaac is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Akamai Technologies received 868 more outperform votes than Fair Isaac when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.76% of users gave Akamai Technologies an outperform vote while only 60.36% of users gave Fair Isaac an outperform vote.
Akamai Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Fair Isaac. Akamai Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fair Isaac, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fair Isaac has a net margin of 29.99% compared to Fair Isaac's net margin of 14.37%. Fair Isaac's return on equity of 14.90% beat Akamai Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Akamai Technologies beats Fair Isaac on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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