SNAP vs. TTD, BIDU, PINS, APP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, MTCH, and BZ
Should you be buying Snap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snap include Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), Pinterest (PINS), AppLovin (APP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), Match Group (MTCH), and Kanzhun (BZ). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Snap (NYSE:SNAP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of -26.99%. Snap's return on equity of 9.41% beat Trade Desk's return on equity.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 6 more articles in the media than Snap. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Trade Desk and 7 mentions for Snap. Snap's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Trade Desk's score of 0.73 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snap has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trade Desk has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Snap. Snap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trade Desk currently has a consensus price target of $93.01, suggesting a potential upside of 0.25%. Snap has a consensus price target of $14.79, suggesting a potential downside of 1.54%. Given Snap's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Snap.
Snap received 318 more outperform votes than Trade Desk when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.93% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 59.39% of users gave Snap an outperform vote.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of Snap shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.7% of Snap shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Snap on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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