ACN vs. PDD, IBM, SPGI, UBER, MELI, TRI, CTSH, IT, LDOS, and BAH
Should you be buying Accenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accenture include PDD (PDD), International Business Machines (IBM), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Gartner (IT), Leidos (LDOS), and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH).
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) 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 community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PDD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accenture. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accenture presently has a consensus price target of $351.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.11%. PDD has a consensus price target of $188.33, suggesting a potential upside of 43.99%. Given PDD's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PDD is more favorable than Accenture.
In the previous week, Accenture had 4 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Accenture and 21 mentions for PDD. Accenture's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat PDD's score of 0.35 indicating that Accenture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Accenture received 743 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.01% of users gave Accenture an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
PDD has a net margin of 26.93% compared to Accenture's net margin of 10.79%. PDD's return on equity of 45.04% beat Accenture's return on equity.
Accenture has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Accenture beats PDD on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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