MSCI vs. CSGP, FICO, DASH, AKAM, ZG, PYPL, RELX, SE, STM, and BIDU
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include CoStar Group (CSGP), Fair Isaac (FICO), DoorDash (DASH), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Zillow Group (ZG), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), SEA (SE), STMicroelectronics (STM), and Baidu (BIDU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
In the previous week, MSCI had 12 more articles in the media than CoStar Group. MarketBeat recorded 63 mentions for MSCI and 51 mentions for CoStar Group. MSCI's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat CoStar Group's score of 0.43 indicating that CoStar Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CoStar Group presently has a consensus target price of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 10.77%. MSCI has a consensus target price of $562.87, suggesting a potential upside of 18.01%. Given CoStar Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MSCI is more favorable than CoStar Group.
CoStar Group received 106 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.45% of users gave CoStar Group an outperform vote while only 65.71% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. MSCI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoStar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MSCI has a net margin of 44.55% compared to MSCI's net margin of 11.64%. MSCI's return on equity of 4.95% beat CoStar Group's return on equity.
CoStar Group has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CoStar Group and MSCI tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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