MTCH vs. BIDU, ZS, GDDY, IOT, ZM, PTC, SRAD, CHKP, PINS, and MDB
Should you be buying Match Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Match Group include Baidu (BIDU), Zscaler (ZS), GoDaddy (GDDY), Samsara (IOT), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), PTC (PTC), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Pinterest (PINS), and MongoDB (MDB). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Match Group vs.
Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH) and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Match Group has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baidu has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Match Group currently has a consensus price target of $37.72, indicating a potential upside of 14.59%. Baidu has a consensus price target of $113.75, indicating a potential upside of 38.06%. Given Baidu's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Baidu is more favorable than Match Group.
Match Group has a net margin of 17.86% compared to Baidu's net margin of 15.82%. Baidu's return on equity of 9.05% beat Match Group's return on equity.
94.1% of Match Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Match Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Baidu 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.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than Match Group. Baidu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Match Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Match Group had 33 more articles in the media than Baidu. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Match Group and 9 mentions for Baidu. Baidu's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Match Group's score of 0.19 indicating that Baidu is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Baidu received 998 more outperform votes than Match Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.74% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 65.99% of users gave Match Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Match Group beats Baidu on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MTCH) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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