TTD vs. TWTR, BIDU, PINS, APP, SNAP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, and MTCH
Should you be buying Trade Desk stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trade Desk include Twitter (TWTR), Baidu (BIDU), Pinterest (PINS), AppLovin (APP), Snap (SNAP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), and Match Group (MTCH). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Twitter received 760 more outperform votes than Trade Desk when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.93% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 55.67% of users gave Twitter an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 12 more articles in the media than Twitter. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Trade Desk and 0 mentions for Twitter. Trade Desk's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Twitter's score of -0.11 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Trade Desk presently has a consensus price target of $93.01, suggesting a potential downside of 3.62%. Given Trade Desk's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Twitter.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Twitter's net margin of -2.14%. Trade Desk's return on equity of 9.41% beat Twitter's return on equity.
Trade Desk has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Twitter. Twitter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of Twitter shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Twitter shares are held by 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.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Twitter has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Twitter on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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