GIB vs. GFS, KEYS, VOD, WDC, SPLK, MSTR, ON, ZS, MTD, and MDB
Should you be buying CGI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CGI include GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GFS), Keysight Technologies (KEYS), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Western Digital (WDC), Splunk (SPLK), MicroStrategy (MSTR), Onsemi (ON), Zscaler (ZS), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), and MongoDB (MDB). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES (NASDAQ:GFS) and CGI (NYSE:GIB) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, CGI had 2 more articles in the media than GLOBALFOUNDRIES. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for CGI and 5 mentions for GLOBALFOUNDRIES. GLOBALFOUNDRIES's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat CGI's score of 0.43 indicating that CGI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CGI has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
CGI has higher revenue and earnings than GLOBALFOUNDRIES. CGI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GLOBALFOUNDRIES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
66.7% of CGI shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of CGI 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.
CGI received 554 more outperform votes than GLOBALFOUNDRIES when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.45% of users gave CGI an outperform vote while only 50.56% of users gave GLOBALFOUNDRIES an outperform vote.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES presently has a consensus price target of $63.08, indicating a potential upside of 33.89%. Given CGI's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe GLOBALFOUNDRIES is more favorable than CGI.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES has a net margin of 13.80% compared to GLOBALFOUNDRIES's net margin of 11.34%. GLOBALFOUNDRIES's return on equity of 20.65% beat CGI's return on equity.
Summary
CGI beats GLOBALFOUNDRIES on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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