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Applied Digital (APLD) Competitors

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$33.38 +2.76 (+9.01%)
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APLD vs. RDDT, IQV, GRAB, AER, CPAY, GIB, TOST, RBA, Z, and FTAI

Should you be buying Applied Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Digital include Reddit (RDDT), IQVIA (IQV), Grab (GRAB), Aercap (AER), Corpay (CPAY), CGI Group (GIB), Toast (TOST), RB Global (RBA), Zillow Group (Z), and FTAI Aviation (FTAI). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Applied Digital vs. Its Competitors

Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Reddit presently has a consensus price target of $217.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.33%. Applied Digital has a consensus price target of $23.70, suggesting a potential downside of 29.00%. Given Reddit's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Reddit is more favorable than Applied Digital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Reddit
2 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57
Applied Digital
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.92

Reddit has a beta of 2.23, indicating that its share price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Digital has a beta of 6.77, indicating that its share price is 577% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Reddit had 10 more articles in the media than Applied Digital. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Reddit and 27 mentions for Applied Digital. Applied Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Reddit's score of 0.73 indicating that Applied Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Reddit
19 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
12 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Applied Digital
15 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Reddit has a net margin of 12.97% compared to Applied Digital's net margin of -111.29%. Reddit's return on equity of 9.93% beat Applied Digital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Reddit12.97% 9.93% 9.04%
Applied Digital -111.29%-37.14%-12.01%

Applied Digital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Reddit. Applied Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reddit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Reddit$1.30B28.90-$484.28M$1.10182.53
Applied Digital$144.19M64.75-$231.07M-$1.13-29.54

65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.3% of Reddit shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Applied Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Reddit beats Applied Digital on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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APLD vs. The Competition

MetricApplied DigitalFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$8.56B$7.90B$12.59B$10.60B
Dividend YieldN/A4.92%5.56%4.86%
P/E Ratio-29.5415.0821.2628.46
Price / Sales64.756.1929.97128.87
Price / CashN/A28.1122.2960.64
Price / Book8.952.632.246.53
Net Income-$231.07M$310.95M$1.02B$276.75M
7 Day Performance-8.90%0.87%0.96%0.20%
1 Month Performance35.31%0.34%-1.12%1.67%
1 Year Performance287.69%20.45%536.19%32.73%

Applied Digital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
APLD
Applied Digital
1.8769 of 5 stars
$33.38
+9.0%
$23.70
-29.0%
+235.4%$8.56B$144.19M-29.54121Trending News
Analyst Forecast
RDDT
Reddit
3.3536 of 5 stars
$205.72
+5.5%
$210.54
+2.3%
+154.5%$38.50B$1.30B186.992,233Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
IQV
IQVIA
4.6374 of 5 stars
$211.78
+3.5%
$234.57
+10.8%
-4.5%$36.01B$15.41B30.6588,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
GRAB
Grab
1.5554 of 5 stars
$5.68
+0.6%
$5.90
+4.0%
+35.1%$22.85B$2.80B141.9111,267
AER
Aercap
3.2421 of 5 stars
$121.11
+0.6%
$122.57
+1.2%
+24.4%$22.61B$8.00B7.53740Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
CPAY
Corpay
4.0665 of 5 stars
$288.04
+0.9%
$395.58
+37.3%
-18.8%$20.32B$3.97B19.5511,200Positive News
GIB
CGI Group
3.8084 of 5 stars
$86.96
-0.2%
$138.33
+59.1%
-23.1%$19.39B$10.79B16.0890,250News Coverage
TOST
Toast
4.3447 of 5 stars
$37.87
+1.0%
$46.05
+21.6%
+29.9%$19.32B$5.53B111.415,700Analyst Forecast
RBA
RB Global
4.2587 of 5 stars
$99.39
+0.4%
$124.00
+24.8%
+15.9%$18.45B$4.28B49.207,800
Z
Zillow Group
3.307 of 5 stars
$73.97
+1.4%
$90.38
+22.2%
+27.5%$17.92B$2.24B-284.525,720Upcoming Earnings
FTAI
FTAI Aviation
4.4394 of 5 stars
$174.69
+4.8%
$201.25
+15.2%
+22.8%$17.92B$1.73B43.2440Analyst Forecast
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:APLD) was last updated on 10/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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