DOCN vs. ZD, WB, GLBE, STMP, DBX, SRAD, WIX, MTCH, DJT, and BZ
Should you be buying DigitalOcean stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DigitalOcean include Ziff Davis (ZD), Weibo (WB), Global-E Online (GLBE), Stamps.com (STMP), Dropbox (DBX), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), Match Group (MTCH), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), and Kanzhun (BZ).
DigitalOcean (NASDAQ:DOCN) and Ziff Davis (NASDAQ:ZD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
DigitalOcean has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ziff Davis has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean both had 3 articles in the media. DigitalOcean's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Ziff Davis' score of 0.98 indicating that DigitalOcean is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ziff Davis has higher revenue and earnings than DigitalOcean. Ziff Davis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DigitalOcean, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DigitalOcean has a net margin of 7.01% compared to Ziff Davis' net margin of 4.36%. Ziff Davis' return on equity of 14.26% beat DigitalOcean's return on equity.
DigitalOcean presently has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.15%. Ziff Davis has a consensus price target of $75.13, suggesting a potential upside of 32.92%. Given Ziff Davis' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ziff Davis is more favorable than DigitalOcean.
49.8% of DigitalOcean shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Ziff Davis shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of DigitalOcean shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Ziff Davis shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ziff Davis received 351 more outperform votes than DigitalOcean when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.12% of users gave Ziff Davis an outperform vote while only 47.83% of users gave DigitalOcean an outperform vote.
Summary
Ziff Davis beats DigitalOcean on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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