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PDD vs. BABA, SPGI, UBER, MELI, RELX, DASH, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and IQV

Should you be buying PDD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PDD include Alibaba Group (BABA), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

PDD vs.

PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Alibaba Group received 2270 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.39% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 59.22% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PDDOutperform Votes
443
59.22%
Underperform Votes
305
40.78%
Alibaba GroupOutperform Votes
2713
84.39%
Underperform Votes
502
15.61%

39.8% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company 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.

PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 12.29%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PDD29.05% 46.08% 26.60%
Alibaba Group 12.29%12.89%7.69%

PDD presently has a consensus price target of $169.91, indicating a potential upside of 80.47%. Alibaba Group has a consensus price target of $150.36, indicating a potential upside of 43.02%. Given PDD's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than Alibaba Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PDD
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
Alibaba Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.07

PDD has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 30 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Alibaba Group and 41 mentions for PDD. PDD's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.81 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PDD
22 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Alibaba Group
43 Very Positive mention(s)
13 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PDD$393.84B0.33$8.45B$10.558.92
Alibaba Group$981.77B0.25$11.08B$6.9215.19

Summary

PDD and Alibaba Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PDD vs. The Competition

MetricPDDBusiness services IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$129.54B$19.45B$22.76B$7.60B
Dividend YieldN/A2.84%171.48%4.27%
P/E Ratio9.1932.9722.5418.06
Price / Sales0.337.373.3990.67
Price / Cash19.3832.3019.4134.64
Price / Book4.914.875.453.95
Net Income$8.45B$676.42M$781.29M$247.18M
7 Day Performance-17.17%-1.58%3.54%0.06%
1 Month Performance-18.58%6.89%4.17%-5.03%
1 Year Performance-21.35%-1.05%-4.31%-3.63%

PDD Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDD
PDD
4.7397 of 5 stars
$94.15
+0.2%
$169.91
+80.5%
-22.3%$129.54B$393.84B9.1912,992Options Volume
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BABA
Alibaba Group
4.7893 of 5 stars
$106.40
-8.7%
$148.14
+39.2%
+44.0%$251.75B$981.77B15.32254,900Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
SPGI
S&P Global
4.8158 of 5 stars
$442.16
-2.1%
$590.86
+33.6%
+9.1%$139.24B$14.21B35.9240,000Positive News
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.772 of 5 stars
$65.93
+2.0%
$90.41
+37.1%
-3.1%$137.88B$43.98B14.4632,800Analyst Forecast
Positive News
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.373 of 5 stars
$1,823.01
-1.0%
$2,402.81
+31.8%
+32.5%$92.50B$20.78B48.4040,500Positive News
RELX
Relx
2.3392 of 5 stars
$45.81
-4.9%
N/A+14.9%$84.87B$9.43B24.5835,700News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
DASH
DoorDash
2.3137 of 5 stars
$168.78
+3.4%
$207.00
+22.6%
+37.9%$70.94B$10.72B625.4516,800Analyst Forecast
PYPL
PayPal
4.9138 of 5 stars
$58.92
+0.9%
$89.13
+51.3%
-4.6%$58.18B$31.80B14.6729,900Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
WCN
Waste Connections
4.0612 of 5 stars
$186.72
-0.1%
$204.00
+9.3%
+14.7%$48.25B$8.92B78.1522,100Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.7647 of 5 stars
$53.85
-3.7%
$77.08
+43.1%
+11.8%$34.71B$53.29B16.1436,249Positive News
IQV
IQVIA
4.7891 of 5 stars
$154.51
-0.1%
$249.05
+61.2%
-36.0%$27.29B$15.41B20.6486,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
Gap Down
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