EXPE vs. BALL, XPO, AMCR, KMX, SCI, ALV, VIPS, TPX, ETSY, and W
Should you be buying Expedia Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Expedia Group include Ball (BALL), XPO (XPO), Amcor (AMCR), CarMax (KMX), Service Co. International (SCI), Autoliv (ALV), Vipshop (VIPS), Tempur Sealy International (TPX), Etsy (ETSY), and Wayfair (W).
Ball (NYSE:BALL) and Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE) are both large-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Ball has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expedia Group has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ball currently has a consensus price target of $65.58, indicating a potential upside of 0.62%. Expedia Group has a consensus price target of $149.12, indicating a potential upside of 9.81%. Given Ball's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Expedia Group is more favorable than Ball.
Expedia Group received 1377 more outperform votes than Ball when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.68% of users gave Expedia Group an outperform vote while only 15.71% of users gave Ball an outperform vote.
86.5% of Ball shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.8% of Expedia Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Ball shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Expedia Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Expedia Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ball. Expedia Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ball, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ball had 41 more articles in the media than Expedia Group. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Ball and 23 mentions for Expedia Group. Ball's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Expedia Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Expedia Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Expedia Group has a net margin of 6.21% compared to Expedia Group's net margin of 5.04%. Ball's return on equity of 35.79% beat Expedia Group's return on equity.
Summary
Expedia Group beats Ball on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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