BIDU vs. PINS, TTD, SNAP, ZM, YNDX, GDS, EVER, OB, FENG, and DGLY
Should you be buying Baidu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baidu include Pinterest (PINS), Trade Desk (TTD), Snap (SNAP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Yandex (YNDX), GDS (GDS), EverQuote (EVER), Outbrain (OB), Phoenix New Media (FENG), and Digital Ally (DGLY).
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Baidu presently has a consensus target price of $162.00, suggesting a potential upside of 58.19%. Pinterest has a consensus target price of $41.26, suggesting a potential downside of 0.29%. Given Baidu's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Baidu is more favorable than Pinterest.
88.8% of Pinterest shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Baidu shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Pinterest shares are held by 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.
Baidu has a net margin of 14.73% compared to Pinterest's net margin of 4.64%. Baidu's return on equity of 9.95% beat Pinterest's return on equity.
In the previous week, Baidu had 33 more articles in the media than Pinterest. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Baidu and 16 mentions for Pinterest. Pinterest's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Baidu's score of 0.15 indicating that Pinterest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than Pinterest. Baidu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinterest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Baidu received 1356 more outperform votes than Pinterest when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.00% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 49.90% of users gave Pinterest an outperform vote.
Baidu has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinterest has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Baidu beats Pinterest on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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