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

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

PDD vs.

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

In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 38 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Alibaba Group and 11 mentions for PDD. Alibaba Group's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat PDD's score of 0.34 indicating that Alibaba Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alibaba Group
33 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
PDD
5 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.8% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

PDD has a net margin of 29.05% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 12.29%. PDD's return on equity of 46.08% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alibaba Group12.29% 12.89% 7.69%
PDD 29.05%46.08%26.60%

Alibaba Group presently has a consensus target price of $154.21, indicating a potential upside of 26.93%. PDD has a consensus target price of $144.55, indicating a potential upside of 42.24%. Given PDD's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PDD is more favorable than Alibaba Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alibaba Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.07
PDD
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57

Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Alibaba Group received 2270 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 59.13% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alibaba GroupOutperform Votes
2717
84.33%
Underperform Votes
505
15.67%
PDDOutperform Votes
447
59.13%
Underperform Votes
309
40.87%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alibaba Group$996.35B0.29$11.08B$7.4516.31
PDD$402.70B0.35$8.45B$9.2910.94

Summary

Alibaba Group beats PDD on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PDD vs. The Competition

MetricPDDBusiness services IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$141.47B$21.57B$25.63B$8.63B
Dividend YieldN/A3.40%168.51%4.18%
P/E Ratio9.9238.7625.1220.15
Price / Sales0.3513.544.49161.53
Price / Cash19.3832.3019.4134.64
Price / Book5.306.136.364.72
Net Income$8.45B$681.70M$784.05M$248.00M
7 Day Performance5.37%2.73%3.54%4.54%
1 Month Performance-7.32%15.91%7.46%10.02%
1 Year Performance-29.38%45.26%23.86%14.88%

PDD Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDD
PDD
4.7358 of 5 stars
$101.62
+1.0%
$144.55
+42.2%
-29.4%$141.47B$402.70B9.9212,992
BABA
Alibaba Group
4.642 of 5 stars
$114.93
+1.0%
$154.21
+34.2%
+55.0%$274.19B$996.35B16.61254,900
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.6861 of 5 stars
$84.02
-0.2%
$93.91
+11.8%
+25.8%$175.65B$45.38B18.4232,800Trending News
Analyst Downgrade
SPGI
S&P Global
4.8579 of 5 stars
$511.97
-0.2%
$592.71
+15.8%
+20.1%$157.05B$14.49B41.4640,000Positive News
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.0327 of 5 stars
$2,582.92
+0.8%
$2,572.86
-0.4%
+53.0%$130.97B$22.38B68.5340,500Positive News
Analyst Revision
RELX
Relx
2.4024 of 5 stars
$54.42
+0.9%
N/A+18.3%$100.42B$9.43B29.2535,700
DASH
DoorDash
2.9843 of 5 stars
$212.62
+1.9%
$209.97
-1.2%
+92.0%$89.99B$11.24B786.5316,800Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
PYPL
PayPal
4.5332 of 5 stars
$70.52
+0.3%
$83.29
+18.1%
+9.3%$68.57B$31.89B17.5829,900Trending News
Insider Trade
WCN
Waste Connections
4.6237 of 5 stars
$196.08
-0.5%
$212.23
+8.2%
+14.2%$50.65B$9.08B82.0222,100Analyst Forecast
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.4547 of 5 stars
$63.80
+1.8%
$77.25
+21.1%
+21.3%$41.68B$55.22B19.1033,700Gap Up
GIB
CGI
3.7169 of 5 stars
$107.84
+0.3%
$156.75
+45.4%
+6.7%$24.45B$15.14B19.5090,000Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PDD) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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