MELI vs. BABA, PDD, UBER, SPGI, FISV, RELX, DASH, PYPL, WCN, and TCOM
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Alibaba Group (BABA), PDD (PDD), Uber Technologies (UBER), S&P Global (SPGI), Fiserv (FISV), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), and Trip.com Group (TCOM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
MercadoLibre vs.
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group has a net margin of 12.29% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of 9.20%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 51.89% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
MercadoLibre presently has a consensus price target of $2,402.81, suggesting a potential upside of 10.86%. Alibaba Group has a consensus price target of $144.07, suggesting a potential upside of 6.72%. Given MercadoLibre's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Alibaba Group.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than MercadoLibre. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alibaba Group received 2029 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.40% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 65.99% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MercadoLibre pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Alibaba Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. MercadoLibre pays out 1.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alibaba Group pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 34 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 77 mentions for Alibaba Group and 43 mentions for MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.85 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats Alibaba Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MELI) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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