ZIP vs. DOCN, IAC, DV, WB, TRIP, MGNI, VNET, YALA, IAS, and HSTM
Should you be buying ZipRecruiter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ZipRecruiter include DigitalOcean (DOCN), IAC (IAC), DoubleVerify (DV), Weibo (WB), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Magnite (MGNI), VNET Group (VNET), Yalla Group (YALA), Integral Ad Science (IAS), and HealthStream (HSTM). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
ZipRecruiter vs.
ZipRecruiter (NASDAQ:ZIP) and DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
70.6% of ZipRecruiter shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.8% of DigitalOcean shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of ZipRecruiter shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of DigitalOcean shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, DigitalOcean had 9 more articles in the media than ZipRecruiter. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for DigitalOcean and 3 mentions for ZipRecruiter. DigitalOcean's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat ZipRecruiter's score of 0.00 indicating that DigitalOcean is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ZipRecruiter has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DigitalOcean has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ZipRecruiter has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ZipRecruiter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DigitalOcean has a net margin of 10.86% compared to ZipRecruiter's net margin of 0.72%. ZipRecruiter's return on equity of 24.19% beat DigitalOcean's return on equity.
ZipRecruiter presently has a consensus target price of $7.80, suggesting a potential upside of 55.22%. DigitalOcean has a consensus target price of $41.27, suggesting a potential upside of 33.48%. Given ZipRecruiter's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ZipRecruiter is more favorable than DigitalOcean.
ZipRecruiter received 35 more outperform votes than DigitalOcean when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.49% of users gave ZipRecruiter an outperform vote while only 46.81% of users gave DigitalOcean an outperform vote.
Summary
DigitalOcean beats ZipRecruiter on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ZIP) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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