Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS – Get Free Report) and N-able (NYSE:NABL – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Synopsys and N-able’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Synopsys | 23.05% | 22.66% | 14.06% |
N-able | 6.27% | 4.38% | 2.66% |
Risk & Volatility
Synopsys has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N-able has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Synopsys and N-able’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Synopsys | $5.84 billion | 15.43 | $1.23 billion | $9.20 | 63.97 |
N-able | $421.88 million | 6.19 | $23.41 million | $0.14 | 100.93 |
Synopsys has higher revenue and earnings than N-able. Synopsys is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than N-able, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Synopsys and N-able, as provided by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Synopsys | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3.00 |
N-able | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2.50 |
Synopsys currently has a consensus target price of $627.18, suggesting a potential upside of 7.01%. N-able has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 9.54%. Given N-able’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe N-able is more favorable than Synopsys.
Summary
Synopsys beats N-able on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. provides electronic design automation software products used to design and test integrated circuits. It operates in three segments: Design Automation, Design IP, and Software Integrity. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; and FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions. It also provides intellectual property (IP) solutions for USB, PCI Express, DDR, Ethernet, MIPI, HDMI, and Bluetooth low energy applications; logic libraries and embedded memories; processor cores, software, and application-specific instruction-set processor tools for embedded applications; security IP solutions; IP solutions for automotive market; and system-on-chip (SoC) infrastructure IP, datapath and building block IP, and verification IP products, as well as mathematical and floating-point components, and Arm AMBA interconnect fabric and peripherals. In addition, the company offers HAPS FPGA-based prototyping systems; virtual prototyping solutions; and Platform Architect solutions for SoC architecture analysis and optimization, as well as optical products, and mechatronic simulations. Further, it provides security and quality testing products, managed services, programs and professional services, and training that enable its customers to detect and remediate security vulnerabilities, and defects in the software development lifecycle, as well as manufacturing solutions. Additionally, the company provides intelligent orchestration solution, software risk manager, and black duck software composition analysis tools. It serves electronics, financial services, automotive, medicine, energy, and industrial areas. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
About N-able
N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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