META vs. BABA, GOOGL, GOOG, TSM, AVGO, ASML, ORCL, UBER, BKNG, and ABNB
Should you be buying Meta Platforms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Platforms include Alibaba Group (BABA), Alphabet (GOOGL), Alphabet (GOOG), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), ASML (ASML), Oracle (ORCL), Uber Technologies (UBER), Booking (BKNG), and Airbnb (ABNB).
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Alibaba Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Meta Platforms pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Alibaba Group pays out 18.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Meta Platforms pays out 11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Meta Platforms had 101 more articles in the media than Alibaba Group. MarketBeat recorded 125 mentions for Meta Platforms and 24 mentions for Alibaba Group. Meta Platforms' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.07 indicating that Alibaba Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Meta Platforms shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of Meta Platforms shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Meta Platforms has a net margin of 32.06% compared to Meta Platforms' net margin of 10.75%. Alibaba Group's return on equity of 32.03% beat Meta Platforms' return on equity.
Meta Platforms has higher revenue and earnings than Alibaba Group. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meta Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alibaba Group currently has a consensus price target of $112.91, suggesting a potential upside of 38.82%. Meta Platforms has a consensus price target of $509.80, suggesting a potential upside of 12.80%. Given Meta Platforms' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than Meta Platforms.
Meta Platforms received 1993 more outperform votes than Alibaba Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.32% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 80.96% of users gave Meta Platforms an outperform vote.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meta Platforms has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Meta Platforms beats Alibaba Group on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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