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MELI vs. BABA, PDD, SPGI, UBER, FISV, RELX, DASH, PYPL, WCN, and TCOM

Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Alibaba Group (BABA), PDD (PDD), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FISV), Relx (RELX), DoorDash (DASH), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), and Trip.com Group (TCOM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

MercadoLibre vs.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.

Alibaba Group currently has a consensus target price of $115.86, indicating a potential downside of 8.90%. MercadoLibre has a consensus target price of $2,244.69, indicating a potential upside of 6.95%. Given MercadoLibre's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Alibaba Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alibaba Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
MercadoLibre
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.06

Alibaba Group received 2024 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.35% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 65.89% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alibaba GroupOutperform Votes
2700
84.35%
Underperform Votes
501
15.65%
MercadoLibreOutperform Votes
676
65.89%
Underperform Votes
350
34.11%

Alibaba Group has a net margin of 8.98% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of 7.57%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 40.71% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alibaba Group8.98% 12.28% 7.44%
MercadoLibre 7.57%40.71%7.24%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alibaba Group$130.35B2.32$11.08B$4.9325.80
MercadoLibre$14.47B7.35$987M$28.3474.06

13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 68 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 96 mentions for Alibaba Group and 28 mentions for MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.74 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alibaba Group
49 Very Positive mention(s)
18 Positive mention(s)
23 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
MercadoLibre
23 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MercadoLibre beats Alibaba Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MELI vs. The Competition

MetricMercadoLibreBusiness services IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$106.97B$22.74B$26.78B$9.23B
Dividend YieldN/A2.58%172.73%3.99%
P/E Ratio74.0627.07111.8214.85
Price / Sales7.355.883.1879.60
Price / Cash70.6032.2722.3638.25
Price / Book34.556.366.165.01
Net Income$987M$611.07M$672.37M$236.25M
7 Day Performance4.07%1.45%2.22%2.13%
1 Month Performance14.31%7.08%3.72%1.63%
1 Year Performance18.66%12.55%9.70%16.41%

MercadoLibre Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.5212 of 5 stars
$2,072.72
-1.2%
$2,244.69
+8.3%
+18.7%$105.19B$14.47B73.2115,638Positive News
BABA
Alibaba Group
3.4274 of 5 stars
$124.73
+4.3%
$115.86
-7.1%
+72.1%$296.71B$130.35B25.30204,891Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
PDD
PDD
4.6848 of 5 stars
$124.16
+2.2%
$173.40
+39.7%
-5.0%$170.83B$34.88B12.1317,403Positive News
SPGI
S&P Global
4.5876 of 5 stars
$539.77
-0.5%
$587.92
+8.9%
+28.2%$167.49B$12.50B47.6440,450Analyst Forecast
Positive News
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.9076 of 5 stars
$79.31
-1.2%
$90.70
+14.4%
+3.9%$167.00B$43.98B17.3930,400Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
FISV
Fiserv
0.5436 of 5 stars
$230.60
+0.3%
N/AN/A$144.85B$18.15B60.8441,000Analyst Forecast
RELX
Relx
1.811 of 5 stars
$51.14
-1.5%
N/A+18.9%$95.04B$9.91B0.0036,500Dividend Increase
DASH
DoorDash
3.0262 of 5 stars
$213.38
+3.8%
$205.45
-3.7%
+82.7%$88.64B$8.64B-474.1819,300High Trading Volume
PYPL
PayPal
4.8469 of 5 stars
$77.97
+1.8%
$90.52
+16.1%
+32.9%$77.13B$31.80B19.4427,200Positive News
WCN
Waste Connections
4.0586 of 5 stars
$189.08
+0.1%
$201.00
+6.3%
+11.8%$48.80B$8.02B51.9422,539Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.3352 of 5 stars
$69.25
-0.7%
$74.78
+8.0%
+62.8%$44.60B$6.27B20.7336,249Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:MELI) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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