MELI vs. BABA, UBER, PDD, SPGI, RELX, DASH, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and IQV
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), PDD (PDD), S&P Global (SPGI), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
MercadoLibre vs.
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
MercadoLibre currently has a consensus target price of $2,551.43, suggesting a potential downside of 1.94%. Alibaba Group has a consensus target price of $154.21, suggesting a potential upside of 24.88%. Given Alibaba Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than MercadoLibre.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than MercadoLibre. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 68 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 117 mentions for Alibaba Group and 49 mentions for MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.55 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alibaba Group has a net margin of 12.29% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of 9.20%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 51.89% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
Alibaba Group received 2028 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 66.12% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.61, meaning that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MercadoLibre pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Alibaba Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. MercadoLibre pays out 1.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alibaba Group pays out 13.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Alibaba Group beats MercadoLibre on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:MELI) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
