Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY – Get Free Report) and Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
67.8% of Workday shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of Marathon Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 21.1% of Workday shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Marathon Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
Workday has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.04, suggesting that its share price is 404% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Workday | $6.47 billion | 9.14 | -$366.75 million | ($1.03) | -219.86 |
| Marathon Digital | $174.00 million | 14.90 | -$686.74 million | ($3.97) | -3.75 |
Workday has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Digital. Workday is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Workday and Marathon Digital, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Workday | 1 | 8 | 21 | 0 | 2.67 |
| Marathon Digital | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2.38 |
Workday presently has a consensus target price of $229.76, indicating a potential upside of 1.46%. Marathon Digital has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential downside of 15.99%. Given Workday’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Marathon Digital.
Profitability
This table compares Workday and Marathon Digital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Workday | -4.09% | -0.44% | -0.19% |
| Marathon Digital | -284.21% | -15.80% | -6.36% |
Summary
Workday beats Marathon Digital on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Workday
Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments, and to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications, which enable chief financial officers to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that helps organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; and human capital management solution, a suite of human capital management applications that allows organizations to manage the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement, and enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers applications for planning; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. It serves professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
About Marathon Digital
Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. operates as a digital asset technology company that mines digital assets with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets in United States. The company was formerly known as Marathon Patent Group, Inc. and changed its name to Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. in February 2021. Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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