RBLX vs. SHOP, NTES, SNOW, PLTR, ADSK, TEAM, DDOG, SQ, EA, and VEEV
Should you be buying Roblox stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Roblox include Shopify (SHOP), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Autodesk (ADSK), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Block (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), and Veeva Systems (VEEV). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) and Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Shopify has higher revenue and earnings than Roblox. Shopify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Roblox, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Shopify has a beta of 2.2, meaning that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Roblox has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Shopify had 14 more articles in the media than Roblox. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Shopify and 14 mentions for Roblox. Roblox's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Shopify's score of 0.20 indicating that Shopify is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shopify currently has a consensus target price of $77.06, suggesting a potential upside of 30.27%. Roblox has a consensus target price of $41.76, suggesting a potential upside of 24.22%. Given Roblox's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Shopify is more favorable than Roblox.
Shopify has a net margin of -2.82% compared to Shopify's net margin of -39.19%. Roblox's return on equity of 7.36% beat Shopify's return on equity.
Shopify received 1271 more outperform votes than Roblox when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.76% of users gave Shopify an outperform vote while only 42.27% of users gave Roblox an outperform vote.
69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.1% of Roblox shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.2% of Roblox shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Shopify beats Roblox on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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