DoorDash (DASH) Competitors

DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Do analysts prefer DASH or PDD?

DoorDash currently has a consensus target price of $206.52, suggesting a potential upside of 8.34%. PDD has a consensus target price of $169.91, suggesting a potential upside of 34.17%. Given PDD's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than DoorDash.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DoorDash	0 Sell rating(s)	10 Hold rating(s)	24 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
PDD	0 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, DASH or PDD?

PDD has higher revenue and earnings than DoorDash. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DoorDash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DoorDash	$10.72B	7.47	$123M	$0.27	706.00
PDD	$372.11B	0.47	$8.45B	$10.24	12.37

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DASH or PDD?

PDD received 288 more outperform votes than DoorDash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave PDD an outperform vote while only 49.84% of users gave DoorDash an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DoorDash	Outperform Votes 155 49.84%	Underperform Votes 156 50.16%
PDD	Outperform Votes 443 59.30%	Underperform Votes 304 40.70%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of DASH or PDD?

90.6% of DoorDash shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.8% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of DoorDash shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is DASH or PDD more profitable?

PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to DoorDash's net margin of 1.15%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat DoorDash's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DoorDash	1.15%	1.67%	1.02%
PDD	29.05%	46.08%	26.60%

Which has more risk and volatility, DASH or PDD?

DoorDash has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer DASH or PDD?

In the previous week, PDD had 29 more articles in the media than DoorDash. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for PDD and 42 mentions for DoorDash. PDD's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat DoorDash's score of 0.40 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DoorDash	15 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	13 Neutral mention(s)	9 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
PDD	25 Very Positive mention(s)	12 Positive mention(s)	17 Neutral mention(s)	11 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

PDD beats DoorDash on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.