NOW vs. ORCL, INTU, SNPS, ADBE, CRWD, CDNS, SHOP, NTES, SNOW, and TEAM
Should you be buying ServiceNow stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ServiceNow include Oracle (ORCL), Intuit (INTU), Synopsys (SNPS), Adobe (ADBE), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), and Atlassian (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
ServiceNow has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oracle has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Oracle has higher revenue and earnings than ServiceNow. Oracle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ServiceNow, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ServiceNow has a net margin of 20.34% compared to Oracle's net margin of 20.27%. Oracle's return on equity of 336.11% beat ServiceNow's return on equity.
87.2% of ServiceNow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Oracle shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ServiceNow shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.8% of Oracle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Oracle received 758 more outperform votes than ServiceNow when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.63% of users gave ServiceNow an outperform vote while only 70.09% of users gave Oracle an outperform vote.
ServiceNow currently has a consensus price target of $808.73, suggesting a potential upside of 5.75%. Oracle has a consensus price target of $130.76, suggesting a potential upside of 5.88%. Given Oracle's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oracle is more favorable than ServiceNow.
In the previous week, Oracle had 8 more articles in the media than ServiceNow. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Oracle and 23 mentions for ServiceNow. ServiceNow's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Oracle's score of 0.66 indicating that ServiceNow is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ServiceNow and Oracle tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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