GOOG vs. GOOGL, META, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, TSM, AVGO, TTD, BIDU, and PINS
Should you be buying Alphabet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alphabet include Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), and Pinterest (PINS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) are both large-cap communication services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Alphabet received 260 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.66% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 82.70% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote.
Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphabet has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphabet presently has a consensus price target of $187.82, suggesting a potential upside of 9.23%. Alphabet has a consensus price target of $165.67, suggesting a potential downside of 4.62%. Given Alphabet's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Alphabet.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 57 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 168 mentions for Alphabet and 111 mentions for Alphabet. Alphabet's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Alphabet's score of 0.62 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alphabet beats Alphabet on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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