Financial Analysis: CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock (NASDAQ:CCC) vs. ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW)

CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock (NASDAQ:CCC) and ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock and ServiceNow”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock	$1.06 billion	4.25	$410,000.00	$0.08	95.38
ServiceNow	$13.28 billion	11.32	$1.75 billion	$1.60	90.81

ServiceNow has higher revenue and earnings than CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock. ServiceNow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock and ServiceNow’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock	3.81%	7.18%	3.75%
ServiceNow	11.34%	16.45%	7.68%

Volatility and Risk

CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ServiceNow has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

95.8% of CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of ServiceNow shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of ServiceNow shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock and ServiceNow, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock	1	7	1	0	2.00
ServiceNow	2	4	36	1	2.84

CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock presently has a consensus target price of $8.79, indicating a potential upside of 15.22%. ServiceNow has a consensus target price of $152.29, indicating a potential upside of 4.81%. Given CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock is more favorable than ServiceNow.

Summary

ServiceNow beats CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. Common Stock

CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc is a provider of cloud, mobile, AI, telematics, hyperscale technologies, and applications for the property and casualty insurance economy. The company’s SaaS platform connects trading partners, facilitates commerce, and supports mission-critical, AI-enabled digital workflows. It operates in a single segment being Domestic segment, which provides SAAS platform for the P&C insurance economy and derives revenues from providing customers with software subscriptions to the platform in addition to providing professional services and non-software services. The company has its presence in the United States and China. The majority of the revenue is generated from the United States.

About ServiceNow

ServiceNow, Inc. provides end to-end intelligent workflow automation platform solutions for digital businesses in the North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates the Now platform for end-to-end digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, process mining, performance analytics, and collaboration and development tools. It also provides asset management, cloud observability, integrated risk management; information technology (IT) service management applications; IT service management product suite for enterprise's employees, customers, and partners; strategic portfolio management product suite; IT operations management product that connects a customer's physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure; IT asset management; and security operations that connects with internal and third party. In addition, the company offers integrated risk management product to manage risk and resilience; environmental, social and governance management product; human resources, legal, and workplace service delivery products; customer service management product; and field service management applications. Further, the company provides app engine product; automation engine; platform privacy and security product; and source-to-pay operations. It serves to government, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, IT services, technology, oil and gas, education, and consumer products through service providers and resale partners. The company was formerly known as Service-now.com and changed its name to ServiceNow, Inc. in May 2012. ServiceNow, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.