PTC vs Google

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

PTC leads in AI visibility (97 vs 95)

PTC

LeaderManufacturing

IoT/PLM

Boston industrial CAD/PLM software (NASDAQ: PTC); FY2025 8.5% ARR growth, Kepware/ThingWorx IoT divested to TPG (Nov 2025) under new CEO Neil Barua competing with Siemens Teamcenter for discrete manufacturer PLM.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A97
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
78%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
92
Perplexity
92
Gemini
94

About

PTC Inc. is a Boston, Massachusetts-based industrial software company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: PTC) as an S&P 500 component — providing computer-aided design (CAD), product lifecycle management (PLM), application lifecycle management (ALM), service lifecycle management (SLM), and industrial IoT software to manufacturers across aerospace, defense, automotive, medical devices, and industrial machinery. In FY2025 (fiscal year ended September 30, 2025), PTC reported 8.5% ARR growth and 16% free cash flow growth, with Q4 FY2025 revenue up 39% in constant currency and 18% year-over-year. CEO Neil Barua took over from long-tenured CEO James Heppelmann in February 2024 and introduced the "Barua Blueprint" refocusing PTC on its core CAD/PLM/ALM/SLM strengths. In November 2025, PTC announced the divestiture of its industrial IoT assets — Kepware and ThingWorx — to TPG, sharpening its portfolio around design and lifecycle management software. PTC's product portfolio includes Creo (3D parametric CAD for mechanical engineers), Windchill (PLM for product data and process management), Onshape (cloud-native CAD platform), and Arena (cloud-native PLM/QMS).

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Google

LeaderConsumer Technology

LLM Platform

Gemini 3 Ultra outperforms on major benchmarks; Gemini chatbot 750M MAU; AI Overviews reaches 2B monthly users. Google Cloud Vertex AI serves Anthropic + Meta. $2B invested in Anthropic; deep integration of AI across Search, Workspace, Android.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
A95
Category Rank
#3 of 8
AI Consensus
100%
Trend
down
Per Platform
ChatGPT
99
Perplexity
99
Gemini
99

About

Google is a Mountain View, California-based global technology company — the world's dominant search engine and digital advertising platform — operating Google Search (the most visited website on the internet, processing 8.5 billion+ searches daily), YouTube (2+ billion monthly users, the world's second-largest search engine), Google Ads (the dominant digital advertising marketplace), Android (3 billion+ device operating system), and Google Cloud (the #3 cloud platform). Part of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Google generated $350+ billion in consolidated Alphabet revenue in fiscal year 2024 with Google Services (Search + YouTube + Google Network) contributing approximately $285 billion.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

97
Overall Score
95
#1
Category Rank
#3
78
AI Consensus
100
stable
Trend
down
92
ChatGPT
99
92
Perplexity
99
94
Gemini
99
99
Claude
99
99
Grok
99

Capabilities & Ecosystem

Capabilities

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IoT/PLM
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LLM Platform
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