PYPL Vs. BABA, MA, ACN, PDD, FISV, FIS, RELX, UBER, MELI, and MSCI
Should you be buying PayPal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPal include Alibaba Group (BABA), Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), Pinduoduo (PDD), Fiserv (FISV), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Relx (RELX), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), and MSCI (MSCI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PayPal vs.
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) 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 earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
17.4% of Alibaba Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group received 921 more outperform votes than PayPal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 85.57% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 80.56% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal has a net margin of 13.87% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 6.35%. PayPal's return on equity of 17.90% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group and Alibaba Group both had 21 articles in the media. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.26 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than PayPal. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alibaba Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alibaba Group currently has a consensus target price of $188.13, indicating a potential upside of 56.40%. PayPal has a consensus target price of $153.59, indicating a potential upside of 106.54%. Given PayPal's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PayPal is more favorable than Alibaba Group.
Summary
Alibaba Group beats PayPal on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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