APP vs. FDS, RKT, VLTO, BR, SYM, KSPI, CPAY, EFX, GPN, and BAH
Should you be buying AppLovin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppLovin include FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Rocket Companies (RKT), Veralto (VLTO), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Symbotic (SYM), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), Equifax (EFX), Global Payments (GPN), and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) and FactSet Research Systems (NYSE:FDS) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
41.9% of AppLovin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of FactSet Research Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.7% of AppLovin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of FactSet Research Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AppLovin has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FactSet Research Systems has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AppLovin presently has a consensus target price of $63.60, suggesting a potential downside of 14.05%. FactSet Research Systems has a consensus target price of $443.56, suggesting a potential upside of 2.23%. Given FactSet Research Systems' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FactSet Research Systems is more favorable than AppLovin.
In the previous week, FactSet Research Systems had 6 more articles in the media than AppLovin. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for FactSet Research Systems and 15 mentions for AppLovin. AppLovin's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat FactSet Research Systems' score of 0.72 indicating that AppLovin is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FactSet Research Systems has a net margin of 22.72% compared to AppLovin's net margin of 10.84%. FactSet Research Systems' return on equity of 34.36% beat AppLovin's return on equity.
FactSet Research Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AppLovin. FactSet Research Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppLovin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FactSet Research Systems received 232 more outperform votes than AppLovin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 47.02% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote while only 42.98% of users gave FactSet Research Systems an outperform vote.
Summary
AppLovin and FactSet Research Systems tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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