Critical Survey: Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX)

Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Wix.com and Accenture”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Wix.com	$1.99 billion	2.58	$50.65 million	$0.81	108.75
Accenture	$70.73 billion	1.71	$7.68 billion	$12.10	16.23

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Wix.com and Accenture, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Wix.com	1	4	16	1	2.77
Accenture	0	11	16	0	2.59

Wix.com currently has a consensus price target of $134.90, suggesting a potential upside of 53.14%. Accenture has a consensus price target of $288.35, suggesting a potential upside of 46.81%. Given Wix.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Wix.com is more favorable than Accenture.

Risk and Volatility

Wix.com has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

81.5% of Wix.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Wix.com shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Wix.com and Accenture’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Wix.com	2.54%	-70.04%	7.27%
Accenture	10.76%	26.65%	13.25%

Summary

Wix.com beats Accenture on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Wix.com

Wix.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a cloud-based web development platform for registered users and creators worldwide. The company offers Wix Editor, a drag-and-drop visual development and website editing environment platform; and Wix ADI that enables users to have the freedom of customization that the classic editor offers. It also provides Wix Logo Maker that generates a logo, including through the use of artificial intelligence; Wix Answers to support users; and Payments by Wix, a payment platform, which helps its users receive payments from their customers through their Wix Website. In addition, the company offers various vertical-specific applications that business owners use to operate various aspects of their business online. Further, it provides a range of complementary services, including Wix App Market, a marketplace that offers its registered users various free and paid web applications for building, growing, and managing their businesses; Wix marketplace that brings users seeking help in creating and managing a website together with Web experts; and Wix owner App, a native mobile application, which enables users to manage their Websites and Wix operating systems. The company was formerly known as Wixpress Ltd. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.