ICLR vs. TCOM, IQV, CPAY, GIB, TOST, AER, GRAB, RDDT, RBA, and GFL
Should you be buying ICON Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICON Public include Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Corpay (CPAY), CGI (GIB), Toast (TOST), AerCap (AER), Grab (GRAB), Reddit (RDDT), RB Global (RBA), and GFL Environmental (GFL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
ICON Public vs.
Trip.com Group (NASDAQ:TCOM) and ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Trip.com Group has a net margin of 31.86% compared to ICON Public's net margin of 9.56%. Trip.com Group's return on equity of 12.04% beat ICON Public's return on equity.
Trip.com Group presently has a consensus target price of $77.25, indicating a potential upside of 24.10%. ICON Public has a consensus target price of $213.08, indicating a potential upside of 68.29%. Given ICON Public's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ICON Public is more favorable than Trip.com Group.
In the previous week, Trip.com Group had 33 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Trip.com Group and 5 mentions for ICON Public. Trip.com Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat ICON Public's score of -0.33 indicating that Trip.com Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
35.4% of Trip.com Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of ICON Public shares are held by institutional investors. 23.0% of Trip.com Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 44.0% of ICON Public shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Trip.com Group has a beta of 0.08, indicating that its share price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICON Public has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Trip.com Group has higher revenue and earnings than ICON Public. ICON Public is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trip.com Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICON Public received 523 more outperform votes than Trip.com Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.38% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Trip.com Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Trip.com Group beats ICON Public on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ICLR) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
