PayPal (PYPL) Competitors

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

Is PDD or PYPL more profitable?

PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to PayPal's net margin of 13.04%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat PayPal's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PDD	29.05%	46.08%	26.60%
PayPal	13.04%	23.67%	5.83%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PDD or PYPL?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PDD	$372.11B	0.47	$8.45B	$10.24	12.37
PayPal	$31.80B	2.18	$4.15B	$4.01	17.50

Which has more risk and volatility, PDD or PYPL?

PDD has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate PDD or PYPL?

PDD currently has a consensus price target of $169.91, suggesting a potential upside of 34.17%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $90.03, suggesting a potential upside of 28.27%. Given PDD's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PDD is more favorable than PayPal.

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
PayPal	0 Sell rating(s)	14 Hold rating(s)	20 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PDD or PYPL?

39.8% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer PDD or PYPL?

In the previous week, PDD had 8 more articles in the media than PayPal. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for PDD and 63 mentions for PayPal. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat PDD's score of 0.49 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
PDD	25 Very Positive mention(s)	12 Positive mention(s)	17 Neutral mention(s)	11 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
PayPal	45 Very Positive mention(s)	5 Positive mention(s)	12 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PDD or PYPL?

PayPal received 1391 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.50% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 59.30% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PDD	Outperform Votes 443 59.30%	Underperform Votes 304 40.70%
PayPal	Outperform Votes 1834 75.50%	Underperform Votes 595 24.50%

Summary

PDD beats PayPal on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.