Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) versus DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC) Head-To-Head Survey

Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) and DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Nutanix and DXC Technology”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nutanix	$2.54 billion	7.38	$188.37 million	$0.64	108.92
DXC Technology	$12.71 billion	0.19	$389.00 million	$2.03	6.80

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

85.3% of Nutanix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of DXC Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Nutanix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of DXC Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Nutanix and DXC Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nutanix	7.42%	-28.01%	7.03%
DXC Technology	2.96%	18.59%	4.69%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Nutanix and DXC Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nutanix	0	4	14	1	2.84
DXC Technology	2	6	0	0	1.75

Nutanix presently has a consensus price target of $87.67, suggesting a potential upside of 25.76%. DXC Technology has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.62%. Given Nutanix’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nutanix is more favorable than DXC Technology.

Risk and Volatility

Nutanix has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DXC Technology has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nutanix beats DXC Technology on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nutanix

Nutanix, Inc. engages in the provision of a cloud platform leveraging web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design. It operates through the following geographic segments: United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Other Americas. The firm also provides software solutions and cloud services to customers’ enterprise infrastructure. The company was founded by Dheeraj Pandey, Ajeet Singh, and Mohit Aron in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

About DXC Technology

DXC Technology Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides information technology services and solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Australia, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Global Business Services (GBS) and Global Infrastructure Services (GIS). The GBS segment offers a portfolio of analytics services and extensive partner ecosystem that help its customers to gain insights, automate operations, and accelerate their transformation journeys; and software engineering, consulting, and data analytics solutions, which enable businesses to run and manage their mission-critical functions, transform their operations, and develop new ways of doing business. This segment also simplifies, modernize, and accelerate mission-critical applications that support business agility and growth through applications services; provides proprietary modular insurance software and platforms; and operates a wide spectrum of insurance business process services, as well as helps to operate and improve bank cards, payment and lending process and operations, and customer experiences. The GIS segment offers security services, such as IT security, operations and culture for migrating to the cloud, protecting data with a zero-trust strategy, and manage a security operation center; and cloud infrastructure and IT outsourcing services. This segment also delivers a consumer-like experience, centralize IT management, and support services, as well as improves the total cost of ownership; and orchestrates hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. The company markets and sells its products through direct sales force to commercial businesses and public sector enterprises. DXC Technology Company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.