ZG vs. LYFT, AKAM, ALIT, FICO, CSGP, PCTY, CDAY, RDDT, LSCC, and DOX
Should you be buying Zillow Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Zillow Group include Lyft (LYFT), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Alight (ALIT), Fair Isaac (FICO), CoStar Group (CSGP), Paylocity (PCTY), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Reddit (RDDT), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), and Amdocs (DOX). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Zillow Group (NASDAQ:ZG) and Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
In the previous week, Lyft had 21 more articles in the media than Zillow Group. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Lyft and 4 mentions for Zillow Group. Zillow Group's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Lyft's score of 0.27 indicating that Zillow Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
20.3% of Zillow Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Lyft shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.1% of Zillow Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Lyft shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Zillow Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lyft. Zillow Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lyft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Zillow Group has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zillow Group received 505 more outperform votes than Lyft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.56% of users gave Zillow Group an outperform vote while only 55.68% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
Lyft has a net margin of -3.94% compared to Zillow Group's net margin of -7.93%. Zillow Group's return on equity of -2.28% beat Lyft's return on equity.
Zillow Group presently has a consensus target price of $57.40, suggesting a potential upside of 45.72%. Lyft has a consensus target price of $16.70, suggesting a potential upside of 6.27%. Given Zillow Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zillow Group is more favorable than Lyft.
Summary
Zillow Group beats Lyft on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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