Analyzing CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY)

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for CrowdStrike and monday.com, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CrowdStrike	1	5	33	2	2.88
monday.com	0	5	16	0	2.76

CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $327.16, suggesting a potential upside of 32.78%. monday.com has a consensus price target of $285.79, suggesting a potential upside of 18.55%. Given CrowdStrike’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than monday.com.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of monday.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of monday.com shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, monday.com has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CrowdStrike and monday.com’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CrowdStrike	$3.52 billion	17.05	$89.33 million	$0.53	464.89
monday.com	$844.78 million	13.78	-$1.88 million	$0.38	634.42

CrowdStrike has higher revenue and earnings than monday.com. CrowdStrike is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than monday.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares CrowdStrike and monday.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CrowdStrike	4.84%	8.44%	3.14%
monday.com	4.88%	4.74%	2.97%

Summary

CrowdStrike beats monday.com on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions in the United States and internationally. Its unified platform offers cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. The company offers corporate endpoint and cloud workload security, managed security, security and vulnerability management, IT operations management, identity protection, SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, data protection, security orchestration, automation and response and AI powered workflow automation, and securing generative AI workload services. It primarily sells subscriptions to its Falcon platform and cloud modules. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About monday.com

monday.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops software applications in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company provides Work OS, a cloud-based visual work operating system that consists of modular building blocks used and assembled to create software applications and work management tools. Its products include monday work management that manages workflows, projects, and portfolios for team collaboration and productivity; monday sales CRM, whcih tracks and manages various sales cycle; monday dev that builds agile product and software development workflows; WorkCanvas, a digital whiteboard; and WorkForms, which allows users to create personalized forms or surveys and gain organizational insights. It serves organizations, educational or government institution, and distinct business unit of an organization. The company was formerly known as DaPulse Labs Ltd. and changed its name to monday.com Ltd. in December 2017. monday.com Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.