YNDX vs. WB, GDS, LVGO, APP, SNAP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, and MTCH
Should you be buying Yandex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yandex include Weibo (WB), GDS (GDS), Livongo Health (LVGO), AppLovin (APP), Snap (SNAP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), and Match Group (MTCH).
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) and Weibo (NASDAQ:WB) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Weibo has a consensus price target of $11.65, indicating a potential upside of 31.64%. Given Weibo's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Weibo is more favorable than Yandex.
In the previous week, Weibo had 1 more articles in the media than Yandex. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Weibo and 7 mentions for Yandex. Yandex's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Weibo's score of 0.33 indicating that Yandex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Weibo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Yandex. Weibo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yandex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Weibo has a net margin of 16.74% compared to Yandex's net margin of 3.20%. Weibo's return on equity of 10.92% beat Yandex's return on equity.
21.9% of Yandex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.8% of Weibo shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Yandex shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of Weibo shares are owned 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.
Yandex has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weibo has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yandex received 41 more outperform votes than Weibo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.76% of users gave Yandex an outperform vote while only 69.14% of users gave Weibo an outperform vote.
Summary
Weibo beats Yandex on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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