COIN vs. PYPL, SQ, GPN, FLT, AFRM, JPM, AXP, NU, SYF, and SOFI
Should you be buying Coinbase Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coinbase Global include PayPal (PYPL), Block (SQ), Global Payments (GPN), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Affirm (AFRM), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), American Express (AXP), NU (NU), Synchrony Financial (SYF), and SoFi Technologies (SOFI).
Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
Coinbase Global currently has a consensus price target of $214.67, indicating a potential downside of 12.08%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $73.59, indicating a potential upside of 9.34%. Given PayPal's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PayPal is more favorable than Coinbase Global.
In the previous week, PayPal had 11 more articles in the media than Coinbase Global. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for PayPal and 26 mentions for Coinbase Global. Coinbase Global's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat PayPal's score of 0.78 indicating that Coinbase Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Coinbase Global. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coinbase Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Coinbase Global has a beta of 3.44, meaning that its stock price is 244% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Coinbase Global has a net margin of 33.98% compared to PayPal's net margin of 14.26%. PayPal's return on equity of 21.58% beat Coinbase Global's return on equity.
68.8% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Coinbase Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PayPal received 1658 more outperform votes than Coinbase Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.34% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 43.00% of users gave Coinbase Global an outperform vote.
Summary
PayPal beats Coinbase Global on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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