VSTA vs. IRS, EVGO, DAO, UDMY, GOTU, QSG, SDA, NRDY, EWCZ, and EM
Should you be buying Vasta Platform stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vasta Platform include IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), EVgo (EVGO), Youdao (DAO), Udemy (UDMY), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), QuantaSing Group (QSG), SunCar Technology Group (SDA), Nerdy (NRDY), European Wax Center (EWCZ), and Smart Share Global (EM). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.
Vasta Platform vs.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:IRS) and Vasta Platform (NASDAQ:VSTA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima received 164 more outperform votes than Vasta Platform when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 51.62% of users gave IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote while only 44.00% of users gave Vasta Platform an outperform vote.
Vasta Platform has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima. Vasta Platform is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vasta Platform has a net margin of -3.32% compared to IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's net margin of -79.08%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's return on equity of 10.23% beat Vasta Platform's return on equity.
45.5% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Vasta Platform shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.1% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Vasta Platform shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vasta Platform has a beta of -0.11, suggesting that its share price is 111% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima both had 1 articles in the media. Vasta Platform's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's score of 0.62 indicating that Vasta Platform is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima currently has a consensus target price of $13.00, suggesting a potential downside of 16.43%. Vasta Platform has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential downside of 28.06%. Given IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is more favorable than Vasta Platform.
Summary
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima beats Vasta Platform on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:VSTA) was last updated on 5/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
