SPGI vs. BABA, PDD, UBER, FISV, MELI, RELX, DASH, PYPL, WCN, and TCOM
Should you be buying S&P Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&P Global include Alibaba Group (BABA), PDD (PDD), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FISV), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), and Trip.com Group (TCOM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
S&P Global vs.
S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
S&P Global presently has a consensus price target of $590.23, indicating a potential upside of 10.73%. Alibaba Group has a consensus price target of $131.93, indicating a potential downside of 8.17%. Given S&P Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe S&P Global is more favorable than Alibaba Group.
S&P Global pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Alibaba Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. S&P Global pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alibaba Group pays out 19.9% 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. S&P Global has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years. S&P Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
S&P Global has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 78 more articles in the media than S&P Global. MarketBeat recorded 145 mentions for Alibaba Group and 67 mentions for S&P Global. S&P Global's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.83 indicating that S&P Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than S&P Global. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&P Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&P Global has a net margin of 27.12% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 8.98%. S&P Global's return on equity of 14.33% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
87.2% of S&P Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of S&P Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group received 2205 more outperform votes than S&P Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.38% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 73.68% of users gave S&P Global an outperform vote.
Summary
S&P Global beats Alibaba Group on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SPGI) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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