PDD vs. MA, ACN, BABA, UBER, FI, MELI, PYPL, RELX, DASH, and FICO
Should you be buying PDD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PDD include Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FI), MercadoLibre (MELI), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), and Fair Isaac (FICO). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PDD vs.
PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) are both large-cap multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
39.8% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Mastercard shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Mastercard shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Mastercard had 3 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Mastercard and 9 mentions for PDD. Mastercard's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat PDD's score of 0.47 indicating that Mastercard is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PDD currently has a consensus target price of $173.40, suggesting a potential upside of 79.10%. Mastercard has a consensus target price of $562.76, suggesting a potential upside of 7.94%. Given PDD's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than Mastercard.
Mastercard received 1093 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.98% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote while only 59.43% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Mastercard has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PDD. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mastercard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PDD has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mastercard has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mastercard has a net margin of 45.26% compared to PDD's net margin of 29.05%. Mastercard's return on equity of 178.27% beat PDD's return on equity.
Summary
Mastercard beats PDD on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PDD) was last updated on 1/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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