TTD vs. PLTR, SHOP, APP, INFY, CRWD, TEAM, NTES, SNOW, DDOG, and NET
Should you be buying Trade Desk stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trade Desk include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Datadog (DDOG), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Trade Desk vs.
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of Trade Desk shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Palantir Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Trade Desk. Trade Desk is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trade Desk currently has a consensus target price of $132.55, suggesting a potential upside of 6.54%. Palantir Technologies has a consensus target price of $43.78, suggesting a potential downside of 39.00%. Given Trade Desk's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.82, suggesting that its stock price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 80 more articles in the media than Trade Desk. MarketBeat recorded 107 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 27 mentions for Trade Desk. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Trade Desk's score of 0.78 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 18.01% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of 13.34%. Trade Desk's return on equity of 13.17% beat Palantir Technologies' return on equity.
Trade Desk received 734 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.38% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Trade Desk and Palantir Technologies tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:TTD) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
