CFLT vs. BIDU, WIT, HUBS, ZS, TTD, GDDY, SRAD, CHKP, ZM, and IOT
Should you be buying Confluent stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Confluent include Baidu (BIDU), Wipro (WIT), HubSpot (HUBS), Zscaler (ZS), Trade Desk (TTD), GoDaddy (GDDY), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), and Samsara (IOT). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Confluent vs.
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Confluent (NASDAQ:CFLT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Baidu currently has a consensus target price of $111.25, indicating a potential upside of 13.04%. Confluent has a consensus target price of $35.33, indicating a potential upside of 38.18%. Given Confluent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Confluent is more favorable than Baidu.
Baidu has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Confluent has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Baidu received 1485 more outperform votes than Confluent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.61% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 54.40% of users gave Confluent an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Baidu had 14 more articles in the media than Confluent. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Baidu and 16 mentions for Confluent. Confluent's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Baidu's score of 0.82 indicating that Confluent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.1% of Confluent shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Baidu shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Confluent shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Baidu has a net margin of 17.90% compared to Confluent's net margin of -35.81%. Baidu's return on equity of 8.67% beat Confluent's return on equity.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than Confluent. Confluent is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baidu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Baidu beats Confluent on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CFLT) was last updated on 3/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
