ETSY vs. LYFT, WU, AKAM, FLT, ICLR, GIB, KSPI, CPAY, AER, and RTO
Should you be buying Etsy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Etsy include Lyft (LYFT), Western Union (WU), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), ICON Public (ICLR), CGI (GIB), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), AerCap (AER), and Rentokil Initial (RTO).
Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY) and Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.
Etsy has a net margin of 10.75% compared to Lyft's net margin of -3.94%. Lyft's return on equity of -23.77% beat Etsy's return on equity.
Etsy currently has a consensus price target of $80.00, indicating a potential upside of 28.47%. Lyft has a consensus price target of $18.04, indicating a potential upside of 47.47%. Given Lyft's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lyft is more favorable than Etsy.
Etsy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lyft. Lyft is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Etsy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Lyft had 9 more articles in the media than Etsy. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Lyft and 24 mentions for Etsy. Etsy's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Lyft's score of 0.27 indicating that Etsy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
99.5% of Etsy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Etsy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Lyft shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Etsy received 538 more outperform votes than Lyft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.66% of users gave Etsy an outperform vote while only 55.11% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
Etsy has a beta of 2.02, meaning that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Etsy beats Lyft on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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