MELI vs. MSCI, FIS, CSGP, EBAY, BABA, UBER, RELX, PYPL, WCN, and IQV
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include MSCI (MSCI), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), and IQVIA (IQV).
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
MercadoLibre received 115 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.84% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote while only 65.23% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
MSCI presently has a consensus price target of $591.21, indicating a potential upside of 9.37%. MercadoLibre has a consensus price target of $1,922.08, indicating a potential upside of 16.37%. Given MSCI's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than MSCI.
MSCI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MercadoLibre. MSCI 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, MSCI had 28 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for MSCI and 24 mentions for MercadoLibre. MSCI's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MercadoLibre's score of 0.38 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MSCI has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
90.0% of MSCI shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MSCI has a net margin of 43.86% compared to MSCI's net margin of 7.17%. MSCI's return on equity of 39.46% beat MercadoLibre's return on equity.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats MSCI on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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