ICLR vs. DASH, WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, AER, KSPI, and GRAB
Should you be buying ICON Public stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICON Public include DoorDash (DASH), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), AerCap (AER), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), and Grab (GRAB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
ICON Public vs.
ICON Public (NASDAQ:ICLR) and DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
ICON Public has a net margin of 9.00% compared to DoorDash's net margin of -1.69%. ICON Public's return on equity of 11.91% beat DoorDash's return on equity.
In the previous week, DoorDash had 18 more articles in the media than ICON Public. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for DoorDash and 22 mentions for ICON Public. ICON Public's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat DoorDash's score of 0.08 indicating that ICON Public is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ICON Public has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DoorDash. DoorDash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICON Public, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.6% of ICON Public shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of DoorDash shares are held by institutional investors. 44.0% of ICON Public shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of DoorDash shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ICON Public currently has a consensus target price of $287.00, indicating a potential upside of 41.75%. DoorDash has a consensus target price of $175.97, indicating a potential upside of 3.00%. Given ICON Public's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe ICON Public is more favorable than DoorDash.
ICON Public has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DoorDash has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ICON Public received 488 more outperform votes than DoorDash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.68% of users gave ICON Public an outperform vote while only 47.86% of users gave DoorDash an outperform vote.
Summary
ICON Public beats DoorDash on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ICLR) was last updated on 1/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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