APPF vs. BIDU, WIT, CRWV, GDDY, IOT, SRAD, ZM, CHKP, DUOL, and PINS
Should you be buying AppFolio stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AppFolio include Baidu (BIDU), Wipro (WIT), CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV), GoDaddy (GDDY), Samsara (IOT), Sportradar Group (SRAD), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP), Duolingo (DUOL), and Pinterest (PINS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
AppFolio vs.
AppFolio (NASDAQ:APPF) and Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, risk and media sentiment.
AppFolio has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baidu has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.2% of AppFolio shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.2% of AppFolio shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Baidu shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Baidu received 1328 more outperform votes than AppFolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.56% of users gave Baidu an outperform vote while only 56.41% of users gave AppFolio an outperform vote.
Baidu has higher revenue and earnings than AppFolio. Baidu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppFolio, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Baidu had 40 more articles in the media than AppFolio. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Baidu and 24 mentions for AppFolio. AppFolio's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Baidu's score of 0.65 indicating that AppFolio is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AppFolio currently has a consensus target price of $274.43, indicating a potential upside of 31.73%. Baidu has a consensus target price of $107.82, indicating a potential upside of 28.25%. Given AppFolio's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AppFolio is more favorable than Baidu.
AppFolio has a net margin of 25.69% compared to Baidu's net margin of 17.90%. AppFolio's return on equity of 26.21% beat Baidu's return on equity.
Summary
AppFolio beats Baidu on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:APPF) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff