ZD vs. EVER, YNDX, LBRDK, LBRDA, LSXMK, LSXMA, MCHX, STCN, ABLVW, and ADTHW
Should you be buying Ziff Davis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ziff Davis include EverQuote (EVER), Yandex (YNDX), Liberty Broadband (LBRDK), Liberty Broadband (LBRDA), The Liberty SiriusXM Group (LSXMK), The Liberty SiriusXM Group (LSXMA), Marchex (MCHX), Steel Connect (STCN), Able View Global (ABLVW), and AdTheorent (ADTHW).
EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER) and Ziff Davis (NASDAQ:ZD) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Ziff Davis has higher revenue and earnings than EverQuote. EverQuote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ziff Davis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EverQuote currently has a consensus target price of $26.25, suggesting a potential upside of 6.66%. Ziff Davis has a consensus target price of $75.13, suggesting a potential upside of 35.90%. Given EverQuote's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ziff Davis is more favorable than EverQuote.
91.5% of EverQuote shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of Ziff Davis shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.8% of EverQuote shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Ziff Davis shares are owned 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.
Ziff Davis has a net margin of 4.36% compared to Ziff Davis' net margin of -17.37%. EverQuote's return on equity of 14.26% beat Ziff Davis' return on equity.
EverQuote has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ziff Davis has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, EverQuote had 14 more articles in the media than Ziff Davis. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for EverQuote and 3 mentions for Ziff Davis. EverQuote's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Ziff Davis' score of 0.80 indicating that Ziff Davis is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ziff Davis received 363 more outperform votes than EverQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.35% of users gave EverQuote an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave Ziff Davis an outperform vote.
Summary
Ziff Davis beats EverQuote on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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