GIB vs. WDC, MSTR, ASX, HPE, VOD, NET, NTAP, TME, NOK, and IOT
Should you be buying CGI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CGI include Western Digital (WDC), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ASE Technology (ASX), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Vodafone Group Public (VOD), Cloudflare (NET), NetApp (NTAP), Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), Nokia Oyj (NOK), and Samsara (IOT). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CGI (NYSE:GIB) and Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
CGI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Western Digital. Western Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CGI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Western Digital had 18 more articles in the media than CGI. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Western Digital and 3 mentions for CGI. CGI's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Western Digital's score of 0.71 indicating that CGI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CGI currently has a consensus price target of $165.00, indicating a potential upside of 56.93%. Western Digital has a consensus price target of $78.32, indicating a potential upside of 8.62%. Given CGI's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CGI is more favorable than Western Digital.
CGI has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Digital has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
66.7% of CGI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.5% of Western Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of CGI shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Western Digital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Western Digital received 1430 more outperform votes than CGI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.16% of users gave Western Digital an outperform vote while only 63.39% of users gave CGI an outperform vote.
CGI has a net margin of 11.38% compared to Western Digital's net margin of -12.87%. CGI's return on equity of 20.43% beat Western Digital's return on equity.
Summary
CGI beats Western Digital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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