STNE vs. TOST, RDDT, GLOB, MARA, BILI, PEGA, CLVT, PAGS, DXC, and GDRX
Should you be buying StoneCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StoneCo include Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Marathon Digital (MARA), Bilibili (BILI), Pegasystems (PEGA), Clarivate (CLVT), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), DXC Technology (DXC), and GoodRx (GDRX). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Toast (NYSE:TOST) and StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
StoneCo received 138 more outperform votes than Toast when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.97% of users gave StoneCo an outperform vote while only 38.03% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.
82.9% of Toast shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of StoneCo shares are held by institutional investors. 13.3% of Toast shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of StoneCo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
StoneCo has a net margin of 14.08% compared to StoneCo's net margin of -6.02%. Toast's return on equity of 12.35% beat StoneCo's return on equity.
StoneCo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than StoneCo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Toast has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneCo has a beta of 2.33, meaning that its stock price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Toast had 14 more articles in the media than StoneCo. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Toast and 7 mentions for StoneCo. Toast's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat StoneCo's score of 0.51 indicating that StoneCo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toast currently has a consensus price target of $26.65, indicating a potential upside of 3.76%. StoneCo has a consensus price target of $19.11, indicating a potential upside of 41.56%. Given Toast's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe StoneCo is more favorable than Toast.
Summary
StoneCo beats Toast on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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