APLD vs. GLOB, QXO, WSC, LYFT, MARA, ETSY, AMTM, RELY, TNET, and STNE
Should you be buying Applied Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Digital include Globant (GLOB), QXO (QXO), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Lyft (LYFT), MARA (MARA), Etsy (ETSY), Amentum (AMTM), Remitly Global (RELY), TriNet Group (TNET), and StoneCo (STNE). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Applied Digital vs.
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) and Globant (NYSE:GLOB) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Globant has a net margin of 6.86% compared to Applied Digital's net margin of -127.86%. Globant's return on equity of 11.83% beat Applied Digital's return on equity.
Applied Digital currently has a consensus price target of $12.11, suggesting a potential upside of 98.54%. Globant has a consensus price target of $219.71, suggesting a potential upside of 73.69%. Given Applied Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than Globant.
Globant received 355 more outperform votes than Applied Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Applied Digital an outperform vote while only 59.97% of users gave Globant an outperform vote.
65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Globant shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Applied Digital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Globant shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Globant has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Digital. Applied Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Globant, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Applied Digital had 4 more articles in the media than Globant. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Applied Digital and 12 mentions for Globant. Globant's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Applied Digital's score of 0.76 indicating that Globant is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Applied Digital has a beta of 4.69, suggesting that its stock price is 369% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Globant has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Globant beats Applied Digital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:APLD) was last updated on 3/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
