SE vs. EQIX, CSGP, EBAY, VRSN, AKAM, SPSC, ENV, PRFT, ZD, and YELP
Should you be buying SEA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SEA include Equinix (EQIX), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Envestnet (ENV), Perficient (PRFT), Ziff Davis (ZD), and Yelp (YELP). These companies are all part of the "internet software & services" industry.
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX) and SEA (NYSE:SE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
94.9% of Equinix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.5% of SEA shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Equinix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of SEA shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Equinix currently has a consensus target price of $872.81, suggesting a potential upside of 14.49%. SEA has a consensus target price of $72.87, suggesting a potential downside of 2.77%. Given SEA's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Equinix is more favorable than SEA.
Equinix has a net margin of 11.32% compared to Equinix's net margin of 0.39%. SEA's return on equity of 7.73% beat Equinix's return on equity.
In the previous week, Equinix had 19 more articles in the media than SEA. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Equinix and 8 mentions for SEA. Equinix's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat SEA's score of 0.14 indicating that SEA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Equinix has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SEA. Equinix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equinix received 589 more outperform votes than SEA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.86% of users gave Equinix an outperform vote while only 62.90% of users gave SEA an outperform vote.
Equinix has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEA has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Equinix beats SEA on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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