ZD vs. TTGT, PRFT, YELP, KLIC, IDCC, SMTC, SIMO, AGYS, UPST, and PYCR
Should you be buying Ziff Davis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ziff Davis include TechTarget (TTGT), Perficient (PRFT), Yelp (YELP), Kulicke and Soffa Industries (KLIC), InterDigital (IDCC), Semtech (SMTC), Silicon Motion Technology (SIMO), Agilysys (AGYS), Upstart (UPST), and Paycor HCM (PYCR). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Ziff Davis (NASDAQ:ZD) and TechTarget (NASDAQ:TTGT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Ziff Davis presently has a consensus target price of $75.13, suggesting a potential upside of 31.98%. TechTarget has a consensus target price of $37.88, suggesting a potential upside of 21.86%. Given Ziff Davis' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ziff Davis is more favorable than TechTarget.
Ziff Davis has higher revenue and earnings than TechTarget. TechTarget is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ziff Davis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ziff Davis has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TechTarget has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ziff Davis and TechTarget both received 406 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 69.05% of users gave TechTarget an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave Ziff Davis an outperform vote.
99.8% of Ziff Davis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of TechTarget shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Ziff Davis shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of TechTarget shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ziff Davis has a net margin of 4.36% compared to TechTarget's net margin of -3.24%. Ziff Davis' return on equity of 14.26% beat TechTarget's return on equity.
In the previous week, TechTarget had 2 more articles in the media than Ziff Davis. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for TechTarget and 1 mentions for Ziff Davis. Ziff Davis' average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat TechTarget's score of 0.11 indicating that Ziff Davis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ziff Davis beats TechTarget on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ZD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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