BIDU vs. TWTR, TTD, PINS, APP, SNAP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, and MTCH
Should you be buying Baidu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baidu include Twitter (TWTR), Trade Desk (TTD), Pinterest (PINS), AppLovin (APP), Snap (SNAP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), and Match Group (MTCH). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
72.1% of Twitter shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Twitter shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Baidu shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than Twitter. Twitter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baidu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Baidu received 81 more outperform votes than Twitter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.99% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 55.67% of users gave Twitter an outperform vote.
Baidu has a consensus target price of $160.93, indicating a potential upside of 68.94%. Given Twitter's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Baidu is more favorable than Twitter.
In the previous week, Baidu had 9 more articles in the media than Twitter. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Baidu and 0 mentions for Twitter. Twitter's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Baidu's score of -0.11 indicating that Baidu is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Baidu has a net margin of 14.73% compared to Baidu's net margin of -2.14%. Twitter's return on equity of 9.95% beat Baidu's return on equity.
Twitter has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baidu has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Baidu beats Twitter on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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