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LYFT vs. IQV, GIB, CPAY, TOST, AER, RDDT, GRAB, RBA, GFL, and TRU

Should you be buying Lyft stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lyft include IQVIA (IQV), CGI (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Toast (TOST), AerCap (AER), Reddit (RDDT), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), GFL Environmental (GFL), and TransUnion (TRU). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Lyft vs.

Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.

IQVIA has a net margin of 8.91% compared to Lyft's net margin of 0.39%. IQVIA's return on equity of 28.81% beat Lyft's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lyft0.39% 8.03% 0.98%
IQVIA 8.91%28.81%7.02%

Lyft currently has a consensus target price of $16.63, suggesting a potential upside of 4.00%. IQVIA has a consensus target price of $228.14, suggesting a potential upside of 65.44%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IQVIA is more favorable than Lyft.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lyft
1 Sell rating(s)
25 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.32
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75

83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Lyft shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of IQVIA 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.

IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than Lyft. IQVIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lyft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lyft$5.96B1.12$22.78M$0.15106.60
IQVIA$15.50B1.54$1.37B$7.3418.79

IQVIA received 363 more outperform votes than Lyft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.12% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote while only 50.71% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
LyftOutperform Votes
323
50.71%
Underperform Votes
314
49.29%
IQVIAOutperform Votes
686
68.12%
Underperform Votes
321
31.88%

Lyft has a beta of 2.14, indicating that its stock price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IQVIA has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, IQVIA had 8 more articles in the media than Lyft. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for IQVIA and 21 mentions for Lyft. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Lyft's score of 0.95 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lyft
11 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
IQVIA
22 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

IQVIA beats Lyft on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LYFT vs. The Competition

MetricLyftBusiness services IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$6.68B$21.43B$25.05B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A2.61%2.89%4.11%
P/E Ratio266.5036.9844.3819.71
Price / Sales1.1213.912,068.55120.55
Price / Cash51.4932.3034.7834.62
Price / Book8.745.866.704.50
Net Income$22.78M$686.94M$739.31M$248.22M
7 Day Performance-1.48%-0.95%-0.32%0.56%
1 Month Performance45.36%27.19%13.46%13.17%
1 Year Performance-0.74%36.20%52,670.39%7.30%

Lyft Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LYFT
Lyft
3.7439 of 5 stars
$15.99
+0.1%
$16.63
+4.0%
-0.2%$6.68B$5.96B266.504,420Analyst Forecast
IQV
IQVIA
4.9289 of 5 stars
$155.54
+4.4%
$231.71
+49.0%
-40.1%$26.86B$15.50B20.7086,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
GIB
CGI
3.9056 of 5 stars
$108.21
+2.1%
$156.75
+44.9%
+2.3%$24.54B$15.14B19.5790,000Positive News
CPAY
Corpay
4.3361 of 5 stars
$348.94
+6.6%
$395.07
+13.2%
+20.1%$24.50B$4.05B24.9510,500Positive News
TOST
Toast
2.6128 of 5 stars
$42.61
+4.3%
$40.91
-4.0%
+61.3%$21.21B$5.22B-4,259.044,500Positive News
AER
AerCap
3.4363 of 5 stars
$111.57
+1.8%
$118.00
+5.8%
+22.5%$20.83B$8.06B8.84740Positive News
RDDT
Reddit
3.8735 of 5 stars
$111.35
+2.7%
$140.35
+26.0%
+61.4%$20.19B$1.45B-14.432,013Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
GRAB
Grab
1.8258 of 5 stars
$5.00
+1.9%
$5.60
+12.0%
+29.3%$20.11B$2.92B-249.759,490Gap Up
RBA
RB Global
2.8144 of 5 stars
$104.68
-1.2%
$114.50
+9.4%
+43.1%$19.37B$4.33B52.054,200Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
GFL
GFL Environmental
4.0015 of 5 stars
$48.28
-2.8%
$54.14
+12.1%
+57.2%$18.95B$7.99B-36.2219,500Positive News
Analyst Forecast
TRU
TransUnion
4.8044 of 5 stars
$91.76
+6.6%
$109.38
+19.2%
+7.5%$17.88B$4.26B62.7612,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NASDAQ:LYFT) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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