Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) Vs. AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, GOOGL, NVDA, TSM, ASML, ADBE, CRM, and PYPL
Should you be buying Facebook stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Facebook include Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Alphabet (GOOGL), NVIDIA (NVDA), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), ASML (ASML), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), and PayPal (PYPL). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
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Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
65.7% of Facebook shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.2% of Microsoft shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.0% of Facebook shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Microsoft shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Facebook has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Microsoft has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Facebook received 1464 more outperform votes than Microsoft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.49% of users gave Facebook an outperform vote while only 75.46% of users gave Microsoft an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Microsoft had 52 more articles in the media than Facebook. MarketBeat recorded 99 mentions for Microsoft and 47 mentions for Facebook. Microsoft's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Facebook's score of 0.27 indicating that Microsoft is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Facebook presently has a consensus price target of $400.18, suggesting a potential upside of 24.70%. Microsoft has a consensus price target of $327.48, suggesting a potential upside of 5.31%. Given Facebook's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Facebook is more favorable than Microsoft.
Microsoft has higher revenue and earnings than Facebook. Facebook is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Microsoft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Facebook has a net margin of 37.17% compared to Microsoft's net margin of 36.45%. Microsoft's return on equity of 45.76% beat Facebook's return on equity.
Summary
Facebook beats Microsoft on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FB and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip ChartMedia 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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