American Noble Gas (NYSE:INFY – Get Free Report) and CDW (NASDAQ:CDW – Get Free Report) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Dividends
American Noble Gas pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. CDW pays an annual dividend of $2.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. American Noble Gas pays out 56.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CDW pays out 31.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CDW has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for American Noble Gas and CDW, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| American Noble Gas | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2.23 |
| CDW | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2.38 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
16.2% of American Noble Gas shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.2% of CDW shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of American Noble Gas shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CDW shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares American Noble Gas and CDW’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| American Noble Gas | 16.58% | 29.40% | 18.87% |
| CDW | 4.92% | 53.63% | 8.58% |
Risk and Volatility
American Noble Gas has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CDW has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares American Noble Gas and CDW”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| American Noble Gas | $19.28 billion | 3.74 | $3.16 billion | $0.78 | 22.30 |
| CDW | $21.00 billion | 0.98 | $1.08 billion | $8.05 | 19.44 |
American Noble Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CDW. CDW is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Noble Gas, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CDW beats American Noble Gas on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About CDW
CDW Corporation provides information technology (IT) solutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Corporate, Small Business, and Public. The company offers discrete hardware and software products and services, as well as integrated IT solutions, including on-premise and cloud capabilities across hybrid infrastructure, digital experience, and security. It also provides hardware products comprising notebooks/mobile devices, tablets, network communications, desktop computers, collaboration, data storage and servers, and others; and software products, such as cloud solutions, software assurance, application suites, security, virtualization, operating systems, and network management. In addition, the company offers advisory and design, software development, implementation, managed, professional, configuration, partner, and telecom services, as well as warranties; delivers and manages mission critical software, systems, and network solutions; and implementation and installation, and repair services to its customers through various third-party service providers. It serves government, education, and healthcare customers; and small, medium, and large business customers. CDW Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
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