STNE vs. TOST, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, MARA, PEGA, PAGS, CLVT, FIVN, and ATHM
Should you be buying StoneCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StoneCo include Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), Marathon Digital (MARA), Pegasystems (PEGA), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Clarivate (CLVT), Five9 (FIVN), and Autohome (ATHM). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Toast (NYSE:TOST) and StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Toast had 15 more articles in the media than StoneCo. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Toast and 7 mentions for StoneCo. Toast's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat StoneCo's score of 0.55 indicating that StoneCo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
82.9% of Toast shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of StoneCo shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Toast shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of StoneCo shares are held by company 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.
StoneCo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than StoneCo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toast has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneCo has a beta of 2.39, suggesting that its share price is 139% more volatile than the S&P 500.
StoneCo received 135 more outperform votes than Toast when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.46% of users gave StoneCo an outperform vote while only 37.59% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.
Toast currently has a consensus price target of $26.14, suggesting a potential upside of 7.89%. StoneCo has a consensus price target of $18.90, suggesting a potential upside of 36.56%. Given Toast's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe StoneCo is more favorable than Toast.
StoneCo has a net margin of 14.08% compared to StoneCo's net margin of -6.02%. Toast's return on equity of 12.35% beat StoneCo's return on equity.
Summary
StoneCo beats Toast on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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