META vs. GOOGL, GOOG, TSM, AVGO, ASML, NVDA, ORCL, BABA, UBER, and BKNG
Should you be buying Meta Platforms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Platforms include Alphabet (GOOGL), Alphabet (GOOG), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), ASML (ASML), NVIDIA (NVDA), Oracle (ORCL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), and Booking (BKNG).
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Alphabet currently has a consensus price target of $157.97, suggesting a potential upside of 1.26%. Meta Platforms has a consensus price target of $519.53, suggesting a potential upside of 3.53%. Given Alphabet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Meta Platforms is more favorable than Alphabet.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meta Platforms has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphabet has higher revenue and earnings than Meta Platforms. Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meta Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Meta Platforms had 15 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 131 mentions for Meta Platforms and 116 mentions for Alphabet. Meta Platforms' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Alphabet's score of 0.31 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Meta Platforms received 2007 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.59% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 80.93% of users gave Meta Platforms an outperform vote.
Meta Platforms has a net margin of 28.98% compared to Meta Platforms' net margin of 24.01%. Alphabet's return on equity of 29.48% beat Meta Platforms' return on equity.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Meta Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Meta Platforms shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Meta Platforms beats Alphabet on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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