GDS vs. IAC, DOCN, DV, RUM, TRIP, WB, MGNI, GRND, IAS, and BMBL
Should you be buying GDS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GDS include IAC (IAC), DigitalOcean (DOCN), DoubleVerify (DV), Rumble (RUM), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Weibo (WB), Magnite (MGNI), Grindr (GRND), Integral Ad Science (IAS), and Bumble (BMBL). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) and IAC (NASDAQ:IAC) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and risk.
IAC has a net margin of -2.54% compared to GDS's net margin of -41.33%. IAC's return on equity of -3.31% beat GDS's return on equity.
IAC received 707 more outperform votes than GDS when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.24% of users gave IAC an outperform vote while only 63.72% of users gave GDS an outperform vote.
IAC has higher revenue and earnings than GDS. IAC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GDS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GDS currently has a consensus target price of $12.58, suggesting a potential upside of 56.90%. IAC has a consensus target price of $79.92, suggesting a potential upside of 60.51%. Given IAC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IAC is more favorable than GDS.
In the previous week, IAC had 4 more articles in the media than GDS. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for IAC and 3 mentions for GDS. GDS's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat IAC's score of 0.48 indicating that GDS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
GDS has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IAC has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.9% of IAC shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of GDS shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of IAC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
IAC beats GDS on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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