BABA vs. PDD, MELI, MCD, LOW, BKNG, TJX, CMG, SBUX, TGT, and CVS
Should you be buying Alibaba Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alibaba Group include PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), and CVS Health (CVS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alibaba Group currently has a consensus target price of $112.49, suggesting a potential upside of 32.99%. PDD has a consensus target price of $146.85, suggesting a potential upside of 4.93%. Given Alibaba Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than PDD.
Alibaba Group received 2250 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than PDD. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PDD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 26 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Alibaba Group and 14 mentions for PDD. PDD's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.36 indicating that PDD is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PDD has a net margin of 24.23% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 10.75%. PDD's return on equity of 39.10% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
Summary
PDD beats Alibaba Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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