ULS vs. TCOM, IQV, RDDT, CPAY, GIB, KSPI, AER, GRAB, RBA, and GFL
Should you be buying UL Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UL Solutions include Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), Corpay (CPAY), CGI (GIB), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), AerCap (AER), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), and GFL Environmental (GFL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
UL Solutions vs.
Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) and UL Solutions (NYSE:ULS) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.0% of Trip.com Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Trip.com Group presently has a consensus price target of $77.08, suggesting a potential upside of 25.15%. UL Solutions has a consensus price target of $51.45, suggesting a potential upside of 2.07%. Given Trip.com Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Trip.com Group is more favorable than UL Solutions.
Trip.com Group has higher revenue and earnings than UL Solutions. Trip.com Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UL Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trip.com Group received 83 more outperform votes than UL Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.29% of users gave UL Solutions an outperform vote while only 57.06% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 31.86% compared to UL Solutions' net margin of 11.36%. UL Solutions' return on equity of 44.52% beat Trip.com Group's return on equity.
Trip.com Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. UL Solutions pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Trip.com Group pays out 8.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UL Solutions pays out 32.1% 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.
In the previous week, Trip.com Group had 7 more articles in the media than UL Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Trip.com Group and 6 mentions for UL Solutions. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat UL Solutions' score of 0.52 indicating that Trip.com Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Trip.com Group beats UL Solutions on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ULS) was last updated on 3/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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