Head-To-Head Analysis: Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) vs. Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD)

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Seagate Technology”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diebold Nixdorf	$3.81 billion	0.59	$94.60 million	$3.06	21.55
Seagate Technology	$12.20 billion	15.48	$3.18 billion	$13.88	59.81

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

Risk & Volatility

Diebold Nixdorf has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seagate Technology has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.0% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Seagate Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diebold Nixdorf	2.87%	21.16%	5.90%
Seagate Technology	26.11%	369.98%	37.58%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Diebold Nixdorf and Seagate Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diebold Nixdorf	0	0	2	1	3.33
Seagate Technology	0	4	22	1	2.89

Diebold Nixdorf presently has a consensus price target of $100.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.61%. Seagate Technology has a consensus price target of $986.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.77%. Given Diebold Nixdorf’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Diebold Nixdorf is more favorable than Seagate Technology.

Summary

Seagate Technology beats Diebold Nixdorf on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated engages in the automating, digitizing, and transforming the way people bank and shop worldwide. It operates through two segments, Banking and Retail. The company offers cash recyclers and dispensers, intelligent deposit terminals, teller automation tools, and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions; and front-end applications for consumer connection points and back-end platforms that manage channel transactions, operations and integration, and facilitate omnichannel transactions, endpoint monitoring, remote asset management, customer marketing, merchandise management, and analytics. It also provides banking product-related services comprising proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents through remote service capabilities or an on-site visit; first- and second-line maintenance, preventive maintenance, and on-demand services; managed and outsourcing services, such as business processes, solution management, upgrades, and transaction processing; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers DN Vynamic software suite to simplify and enhance the consumer experience; modular and integrated point of sale and self-checkout terminals; printers, scales, and mobile scanners; and banknote and coin processing systems, as well as ordering kiosks. Additionally, it provides retail customer's product-related services, such as on-demand and professional services; maintenance and availability services; implementation services; managed mobility services; monitoring and advanced analytics; and store life-cycle management services. The company was formerly known as Diebold, Incorporated and changed its name to Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in December 2016. Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.

About Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives; notebook drives, DVR HDDs, and gaming SSDs. In addition, it provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform. The company sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.