MARA vs. IDCC, FRG, TIVO, ACTG, JYNT, TOST, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, and PEGA
Should you be buying Marathon Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Digital include InterDigital (IDCC), Franchise Group (FRG), TiVo (TIVO), Acacia Research (ACTG), Joint (JYNT), Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), and Pegasystems (PEGA).
Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) and InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 106.46% compared to InterDigital's net margin of 31.18%. InterDigital's return on equity of 32.57% beat Marathon Digital's return on equity.
Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.38, suggesting that its stock price is 438% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterDigital has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of InterDigital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of InterDigital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Marathon Digital presently has a consensus target price of $19.69, suggesting a potential downside of 2.74%. InterDigital has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.67%. Given Marathon Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marathon Digital is more favorable than InterDigital.
Marathon Digital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than InterDigital. Marathon Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterDigital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
InterDigital received 161 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.42% of users gave InterDigital an outperform vote while only 53.87% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 13 more articles in the media than InterDigital. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Marathon Digital and 5 mentions for InterDigital. InterDigital's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Marathon Digital's score of 0.48 indicating that InterDigital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
InterDigital beats Marathon Digital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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