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$50.06 +0.94 (+1.91%)
As of 04/14/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

RELX vs. BABA, UBER, SPGI, PDD, MELI, DASH, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and IQV

Should you be buying Relx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Relx include Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), S&P Global (SPGI), PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Relx vs.

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

Alibaba Group received 2322 more outperform votes than Relx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.39% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 56.42% of users gave Relx an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alibaba GroupOutperform Votes
2713
84.39%
Underperform Votes
502
15.61%
RelxOutperform Votes
391
56.42%
Underperform Votes
302
43.58%

13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Relx shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Relx shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Relx has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Alibaba Group has a net margin of 12.29% compared to Relx's net margin of 0.00%. Alibaba Group's return on equity of 12.89% beat Relx's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alibaba Group12.29% 12.89% 7.69%
Relx N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 55 more articles in the media than Relx. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for Alibaba Group and 11 mentions for Relx. Relx's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.83 indicating that Relx is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alibaba Group
36 Very Positive mention(s)
13 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Relx
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Alibaba Group currently has a consensus price target of $150.36, suggesting a potential upside of 31.81%. Given Alibaba Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than Relx.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alibaba Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.07
Relx
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.25

Alibaba Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Relx pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Alibaba Group pays out 14.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Relx pays out 59.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alibaba Group$981.77B0.28$11.08B$6.9216.48
Relx$9.43B9.82$2.47B$1.8626.91

Summary

Alibaba Group beats Relx on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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RELX vs. The Competition

MetricRelxBusiness services IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$92.65B$19.39B$22.19B$18.52B
Dividend Yield1.58%2.94%3.00%4.25%
P/E Ratio26.9132.2139.0531.06
Price / Sales9.827.242,145.2826.47
Price / Cash24.1832.3034.6617.54
Price / Book20.774.885.724.29
Net Income$2.47B$671.24M$737.35M$1.02B
7 Day Performance10.10%3.91%4.43%4.23%
1 Month Performance2.19%-8.01%-5.48%-6.79%
1 Year Performance19.85%7.52%53,099.42%-0.03%

Relx Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RELX
Relx
2.8789 of 5 stars
$50.06
+1.9%
N/A+19.8%$92.65B$9.43B26.9135,700News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
BABA
Alibaba Group
4.8356 of 5 stars
$105.92
-9.1%
$148.14
+39.9%
+60.0%$251.58B$981.77B15.31254,900Gap Up
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.7659 of 5 stars
$65.60
+1.5%
$90.41
+37.8%
-2.9%$137.21B$43.98B14.3832,800
SPGI
S&P Global
4.9178 of 5 stars
$437.19
-3.2%
$590.86
+35.2%
+12.9%$137.21B$14.21B35.4040,000Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PDD
PDD
4.7344 of 5 stars
$99.57
-4.5%
$169.91
+70.6%
-17.9%$136.82B$393.84B9.7112,992Positive News
Gap Up
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.4579 of 5 stars
$1,790.44
-2.8%
$2,402.81
+34.2%
+41.1%$90.77B$20.78B47.4940,500Positive News
Gap Up
DASH
DoorDash
3.1065 of 5 stars
$166.23
+1.9%
$207.00
+24.5%
+31.4%$69.83B$10.72B615.6616,800Gap Down
PYPL
PayPal
4.8645 of 5 stars
$58.45
+0.1%
$89.13
+52.5%
-3.6%$57.80B$31.80B14.5729,900Analyst Forecast
WCN
Waste Connections
4.0189 of 5 stars
$184.88
-1.1%
$204.00
+10.3%
+17.2%$47.77B$8.92B77.3622,100
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.7313 of 5 stars
$53.55
-4.2%
$77.08
+43.9%
+16.2%$34.49B$53.29B16.0336,249Positive News
Gap Up
IQV
IQVIA
4.9019 of 5 stars
$152.72
-1.3%
$249.05
+63.1%
-35.6%$26.93B$15.41B20.3686,000Short Interest ↓
Gap Up
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This page (NYSE:RELX) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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