BABA vs. PDD, MELI, MCD, LOW, BKNG, TJX, CMG, SBUX, TGT, and CVS
Should you be buying Alibaba Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alibaba Group include PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), and CVS Health (CVS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
29.1% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held 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.
PDD has a net margin of 24.23% compared to PDD's net margin of 8.44%. Alibaba Group's return on equity of 39.10% beat PDD's return on equity.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than PDD. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PDD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PDD has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 74 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 100 mentions for Alibaba Group and 26 mentions for PDD. Alibaba Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat PDD's score of 0.34 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alibaba Group received 2256 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.36% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
PDD presently has a consensus price target of $146.85, indicating a potential upside of 0.45%. Alibaba Group has a consensus price target of $109.96, indicating a potential upside of 24.20%. Given PDD's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than PDD.
Summary
PDD beats Alibaba Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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