CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP – Get Free Report) and American Noble Gas (NYSE:INFY – Get Free Report) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for CoStar Group and American Noble Gas, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CoStar Group | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 2.58 |
| American Noble Gas | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
CoStar Group currently has a consensus price target of $72.76, suggesting a potential upside of 82.14%. American Noble Gas has a consensus price target of $16.89, suggesting a potential upside of 22.88%. Given CoStar Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CoStar Group is more favorable than American Noble Gas.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CoStar Group | $3.25 billion | 5.16 | $7.00 million | $0.01 | 3,995.00 |
| American Noble Gas | $19.28 billion | 2.88 | $3.16 billion | $0.77 | 17.85 |
American Noble Gas has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. American Noble Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoStar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
CoStar Group has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Noble Gas has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
96.6% of CoStar Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of American Noble Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of CoStar Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of American Noble Gas shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares CoStar Group and American Noble Gas’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CoStar Group | 0.23% | 2.53% | 2.04% |
| American Noble Gas | 16.16% | 30.60% | 19.26% |
Summary
American Noble Gas beats CoStar Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CoStar Group
CoStar Group, Inc. provides information, analytics, and online marketplace services to the commercial real estate, hospitality, residential, and related professionals industries in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. The company offers CoStar Property that provides inventory of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality, and student housing properties and land; CoStar Sales, a robust database of comparable commercial real estate sales transactions; CoStar Market Analytics to view and report on aggregated market and submarket trends; and CoStar Tenant, an online business-to-business prospecting and analytical tool that provides tenant information. It also provides Leasing, a tool to capture, manage, and maintain lease data; CoStar Lease Analysis; Public Record, a searchable database of commercially zoned parcels; CoStar Real Estate Manager, a real estate lease administration, portfolio management, and lease accounting compliance software solution; and CoStar Risk Analytics and CoStar Investment. In addition, it offers apartment marketing sites, such as ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, WestsideRentals.com, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com, ForRentUniversity.com, Apartamentos.com, and Off Campus Partners; LoopNet Premium Lister; LoopNet Diamond, Platinum, and Gold Ads; LandsofAmerica.com, LandAndFarm.com, and LandWatch.com for rural land for-sale; BizBuySell.com, BizQuest.com, and FindaFranchise.com for operating businesses and franchises for-sale; Ten-X, an online auction platform for commercial real estate; and HomeSnap, an online and mobile software platform, as well as Homes.com, a homes for sale listings site. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
About American Noble Gas
Infosys Ltd. is a digital services and consulting company, which engages in the provision of end-to-end business solutions. It operates through the following segments: Financial Services, Retail, Communication, Energy, Utilities, Resources, and Services, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Life Sciences, and All Other. The company was founded by Dinesh Krishnan Swamy, Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, Narayana Ramarao Nagavara Murthy, Raghavan N. S., Ashok Arora, Nandan M. Nilekani, and S. D. Shibulal on July 2, 1981 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.
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