PDD vs. BABA, ACN, UBER, MELI, MCD, LOW, BKNG, TJX, CMG, and SBUX
Should you be buying PDD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PDD include Alibaba Group (BABA), Accenture (ACN), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), and Starbucks (SBUX).
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
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 company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 73 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 99 mentions for Alibaba Group and 26 mentions for PDD. PDD's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.34 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PDD has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 presently has a consensus target price of $146.85, suggesting a potential upside of 0.45%. Alibaba Group has a consensus target price of $109.96, suggesting a potential upside of 24.20%. Given Alibaba Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than PDD.
PDD has a net margin of 24.23% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 8.44%. PDD's return on equity of 39.10% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
Summary
PDD beats Alibaba Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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