Comparing SS&C Technologies (NASDAQ:SSNC) and CACI International (NYSE:CACI)

SS&C Technologies (NASDAQ:SSNC) and CACI International (NYSE:CACI) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for SS&C Technologies and CACI International, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SS&C Technologies	1	2	8	1	2.75
CACI International	1	1	9	0	2.73

SS&C Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $96.57, suggesting a potential upside of 21.37%. CACI International has a consensus price target of $727.70, suggesting a potential upside of 15.19%. Given SS&C Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SS&C Technologies is more favorable than CACI International.

Risk & Volatility

SS&C Technologies has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CACI International has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares SS&C Technologies and CACI International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SS&C Technologies	12.76%	21.74%	7.25%
CACI International	5.55%	15.56%	6.15%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.9% of SS&C Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.4% of CACI International shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of SS&C Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CACI International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares SS&C Technologies and CACI International”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SS&C Technologies	$6.27 billion	2.98	$796.90 million	$3.48	22.86
CACI International	$9.57 billion	1.47	$535.81 million	$24.36	25.93

SS&C Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CACI International. SS&C Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CACI International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

SS&C Technologies beats CACI International on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. engages in the development and provision of software solutions to the financial services and healthcare industries. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan, Canada, and the Americas, excluding the United States and Canada. Its products include advent genesis, antares, asset allocators, AWD, axys, BANC mall, BRIX, DST vision, evare, lightning, and moxy. The company was founded by William Charles Stone in March 1986 and is headquartered in Windsor, CT.

About CACI International

CACI International Inc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of expertise and technology to enterprise and mission customers in support of national security in the intelligence, defense, and federal civilian sectors. The company operates through two segments, Domestic Operations and International Operations. The Domestic Operations segment offers digital solutions by modernizing enterprise and agency-unique applications, enterprise infrastructure, and business processes; C4ISR solutions, including command, control, communications, and computer (C4), as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technology and networks; and cyber solutions for cybersecurity, cyberspace, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence operations. This segment also provides space solutions, comprising intelligence fusion, data analytic, and decision support, as well as logistics solutions; engineering services, such as platform integration, modernization and sustainment, system engineering, naval architecture, training and simulation, and logistics engineering; design, implement, protect, and manage secure enterprise IT solutions for federal agencies; and mission support solutions, that include analytic services, as well as scenario-based instruction across the spectrum of intelligence processing, collection, and products. The International Operations segment provides a range of IT services, proprietary data, and software products to the commercial and government customers in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and internationally. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.