SNAP vs. TTD, BIDU, PINS, APP, ZM, FDS, SRAD, WIX, BZ, and MTCH
Should you be buying Snap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Snap include Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), Pinterest (PINS), AppLovin (APP), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Wix.com (WIX), Kanzhun (BZ), and Match Group (MTCH). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Snap (NYSE:SNAP) and Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Snap's net margin of -26.99%. Trade Desk's return on equity of 9.41% beat Snap's return on equity.
Snap currently has a consensus price target of $14.79, indicating a potential downside of 3.50%. Trade Desk has a consensus price target of $93.01, indicating a potential downside of 2.19%. Given Trade Desk's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Snap.
47.5% of Snap shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trade Desk has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Snap. Snap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 5 more articles in the media than Snap. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Trade Desk and 5 mentions for Snap. Trade Desk's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Snap's score of 1.42 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Snap received 318 more outperform votes than Trade Desk when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.93% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 59.39% of users gave Snap an outperform vote.
Snap has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trade Desk has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Snap on 16 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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