DASH vs. BABA, UBER, PDD, SPGI, MELI, RELX, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and IQV
Should you be buying DoorDash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DoorDash include Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), PDD (PDD), S&P Global (SPGI), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
DoorDash vs.
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
Alibaba Group received 2547 more outperform votes than DoorDash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 51.05% of users gave DoorDash an outperform vote.
13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of DoorDash shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of DoorDash shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than DoorDash. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DoorDash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alibaba Group has a net margin of 12.29% compared to DoorDash's net margin of 1.15%. Alibaba Group's return on equity of 12.89% beat DoorDash's return on equity.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DoorDash has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alibaba Group currently has a consensus price target of $154.21, indicating a potential upside of 24.88%. DoorDash has a consensus price target of $209.97, indicating a potential upside of 2.54%. Given Alibaba Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than DoorDash.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 58 more articles in the media than DoorDash. MarketBeat recorded 114 mentions for Alibaba Group and 56 mentions for DoorDash. DoorDash's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.55 indicating that DoorDash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alibaba Group beats DoorDash on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DASH) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
