TTD vs. TWTR, ZM, SHOP, PLTR, SNOW, BIDU, VEEV, PINS, NET, and SNAP
Should you be buying Trade Desk stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trade Desk include Twitter (TWTR), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Shopify (SHOP), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Snowflake (SNOW), Baidu (BIDU), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Pinterest (PINS), Cloudflare (NET), and Snap (SNAP).
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Trade Desk has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Twitter. Twitter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 6 more articles in the media than Twitter. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Trade Desk and 28 mentions for Twitter. Twitter's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Trade Desk's score of -0.11 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Trade Desk has a consensus target price of $100.38, indicating a potential upside of 8.60%. Given Twitter's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Twitter.
72.1% of Twitter shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Twitter shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of -2.14%. Twitter's return on equity of 9.41% beat Trade Desk's return on equity.
Twitter received 752 more outperform votes than Trade Desk when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.12% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 55.55% of users gave Twitter an outperform vote.
Twitter has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trade Desk has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Twitter on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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