Alibaba Group (BABA) Competitors

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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PDD or BABA?

Alibaba Group received 2267 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.40% of users gave Alibaba Group 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%
Alibaba Group	Outperform Votes 2710 84.40%	Underperform Votes 501 15.60%

Do analysts rate PDD or BABA?

PDD currently has a consensus target price of $169.91, suggesting a potential upside of 34.17%. Alibaba Group has a consensus target price of $144.07, suggesting a potential upside of 6.59%. Given PDD's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe PDD is more favorable than Alibaba Group.

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
Alibaba Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	14 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.07

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PDD or BABA?

39.8% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, PDD or BABA?

Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than PDD. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alibaba Group, 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
Alibaba Group	$981.77B	0.33	$11.08B	$6.92	19.53

Is PDD or BABA more profitable?

PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 12.29%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PDD	29.05%	46.08%	26.60%
Alibaba Group	12.29%	12.89%	7.69%

Does the media favor PDD or BABA?

In the previous week, PDD and PDD both had 71 articles in the media. Alibaba Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat PDD's score of 0.51 indicating that Alibaba Group 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)	Positive
Alibaba Group	40 Very Positive mention(s)	14 Positive mention(s)	13 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, PDD or BABA?

PDD has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Alibaba Group beats PDD on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.