SE vs. EQIX, CSGP, EBAY, VRSN, AKAM, SPSC, ENV, PRFT, ZD, and YELP
Should you be buying SEA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEA include Equinix (EQIX), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Ziff Davis (ZD), and Yelp (YELP). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
SEA (NYSE:SE) and Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
SEA has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equinix has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SEA currently has a consensus target price of $72.73, indicating a potential upside of 7.72%. Equinix has a consensus target price of $872.81, indicating a potential upside of 14.40%. Given Equinix's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Equinix is more favorable than SEA.
Equinix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than SEA. Equinix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Equinix had 18 more articles in the media than SEA. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Equinix and 10 mentions for SEA. SEA's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Equinix's score of 0.40 indicating that SEA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Equinix received 590 more outperform votes than SEA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.86% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote while only 62.85% of users gave SEA an outperform vote.
Equinix has a net margin of 11.32% compared to SEA's net margin of 0.39%. Equinix's return on equity of 7.73% beat SEA's return on equity.
59.5% of SEA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of SEA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Equinix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Equinix beats SEA on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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