PINS vs. TTD, BIDU, APP, SNAP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, MTCH, and BZ
Should you be buying Pinterest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinterest include Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), AppLovin (APP), Snap (SNAP), 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.
Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) and Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Pinterest presently has a consensus target price of $41.34, suggesting a potential downside of 0.37%. Trade Desk has a consensus target price of $93.01, suggesting a potential upside of 0.25%. Given Trade Desk's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Pinterest.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Pinterest's net margin of 4.64%. Trade Desk's return on equity of 9.41% beat Pinterest's return on equity.
Trade Desk has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pinterest. Pinterest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 2 more articles in the media than Pinterest. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Trade Desk and 11 mentions for Pinterest. Trade Desk's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Pinterest's score of 0.79 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pinterest has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trade Desk has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
88.8% of Pinterest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of Pinterest shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Trade Desk received 516 more outperform votes than Pinterest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.93% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Pinterest an outperform vote.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Pinterest on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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