Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Vs. MSFT, GOOG, GOOGL, FB, TSM, NVDA, ASML, ADBE, CRM, and PYPL
Should you be buying Apple stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apple include Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), NVIDIA (NVDA), ASML (ASML), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), and PayPal (PYPL). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
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Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Alphabet has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Apple has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.6% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.4% of Apple shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Apple shares are owned by 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.
Apple has higher revenue and earnings than Alphabet. Apple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Apple had 54 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 86 mentions for Apple and 32 mentions for Alphabet. Alphabet's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Apple's score of 0.12 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apple received 4742 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Apple an outperform vote while only 84.12% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote.
Alphabet has a net margin of 28.57% compared to Apple's net margin of 25.00%. Apple's return on equity of 131.01% beat Alphabet's return on equity.
Alphabet presently has a consensus target price of $3,103.03, indicating a potential upside of 11.92%. Apple has a consensus target price of $165.13, indicating a potential upside of 11.06%. Given Alphabet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Apple.
Summary
Apple beats Alphabet on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding AAPL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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