MARA vs. IDCC, FRG, TIVO, ACTG, JYNT, TOST, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, and PEGA
Should you be buying Marathon Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Digital include InterDigital (IDCC), Franchise Group (FRG), TiVo (TIVO), Acacia Research (ACTG), Joint (JYNT), Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), and Pegasystems (PEGA).
InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) and Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
InterDigital has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.38, suggesting that its stock price is 438% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Digital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than InterDigital. Marathon Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterDigital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 7 more articles in the media than InterDigital. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Marathon Digital and 5 mentions for InterDigital. Marathon Digital's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat InterDigital's score of 0.46 indicating that InterDigital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.8% of InterDigital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of InterDigital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
InterDigital received 161 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave InterDigital an outperform vote while only 53.87% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 106.46% compared to Marathon Digital's net margin of 31.18%. Marathon Digital's return on equity of 32.57% beat InterDigital's return on equity.
InterDigital currently has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.18%. Marathon Digital has a consensus target price of $19.69, suggesting a potential upside of 0.85%. Given InterDigital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Marathon Digital is more favorable than InterDigital.
Summary
InterDigital beats Marathon Digital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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