BIDU vs. APP, INFY, CRWD, TEAM, NTES, TTD, SNOW, DDOG, NET, and EA
Should you be buying Baidu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baidu include AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Trade Desk (TTD), Snowflake (SNOW), Datadog (DDOG), Cloudflare (NET), and Electronic Arts (EA). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Baidu vs.
AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
AppLovin currently has a consensus price target of $338.06, indicating a potential downside of 1.25%. Baidu has a consensus price target of $113.75, indicating a potential upside of 37.18%. Given Baidu's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Baidu is more favorable than AppLovin.
In the previous week, AppLovin had 32 more articles in the media than Baidu. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for AppLovin and 8 mentions for Baidu. AppLovin's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Baidu's score of 0.30 indicating that AppLovin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than AppLovin. Baidu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppLovin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AppLovin has a net margin of 26.85% compared to Baidu's net margin of 15.82%. AppLovin's return on equity of 122.24% beat Baidu's return on equity.
41.9% of AppLovin shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of AppLovin shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Baidu shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AppLovin has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baidu has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Baidu received 1500 more outperform votes than AppLovin when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.74% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 57.07% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote.
Summary
AppLovin beats Baidu on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BIDU) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
