TTD vs. AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, GOOGL, META, MGNI, NFLX, PUBM, ROKU, and DIS
Should you be buying Trade Desk stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trade Desk include Apple (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), Magnite (MGNI), Netflix (NFLX), PubMatic (PUBM), Roku (ROKU), and Walt Disney (DIS).
Trade Desk vs. Its Competitors
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Apple has higher revenue and earnings than Trade Desk. Apple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Apple has a net margin of 24.30% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of 15.57%. Apple's return on equity of 170.91% beat Trade Desk's return on equity.
Trade Desk currently has a consensus target price of $88.58, indicating a potential upside of 61.19%. Apple has a consensus target price of $237.60, indicating a potential upside of 2.90%. Given Trade Desk's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Apple.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Apple shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of Trade Desk shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Apple shares are owned 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.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apple has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Apple had 237 more articles in the media than Trade Desk. MarketBeat recorded 298 mentions for Apple and 61 mentions for Trade Desk. Apple's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Trade Desk's score of 0.58 indicating that Apple is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Apple beats Trade Desk on 10 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:TTD) was last updated on 8/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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