PLTK vs. LYFT, AMTM, SEZL, MARA, ETSY, WSC, LIF, STNE, FTDR, and QBTS
Should you be buying Playtika stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Playtika include Lyft (LYFT), Amentum (AMTM), Sezzle (SEZL), Marathon Digital (MARA), Etsy (ETSY), WillScot (WSC), Life360 (LIF), StoneCo (STNE), Frontdoor (FTDR), and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Playtika vs. Its Competitors
Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Playtika (NASDAQ:PLTK) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
In the previous week, Lyft had 12 more articles in the media than Playtika. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Lyft and 11 mentions for Playtika. Playtika's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Lyft's score of 0.71 indicating that Playtika is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Playtika has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lyft. Playtika is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lyft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Playtika shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Lyft shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Playtika shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Playtika has a net margin of 5.37% compared to Lyft's net margin of 0.95%. Lyft's return on equity of 11.28% beat Playtika's return on equity.
Lyft has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its stock price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Playtika has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lyft presently has a consensus target price of $16.78, indicating a potential upside of 1.98%. Playtika has a consensus target price of $7.68, indicating a potential upside of 55.75%. Given Playtika's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Playtika is more favorable than Lyft.
Summary
Playtika beats Lyft on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:PLTK) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
