ZIP vs. GDS, CDLX, VMEO, DSP, IAS, DADA, TRMR, NEXN, RXT, and TINV
Should you be buying ZipRecruiter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ZipRecruiter include GDS (GDS), Cardlytics (CDLX), Vimeo (VMEO), Viant Technology (DSP), Integral Ad Science (IAS), Dada Nexus (DADA), Tremor International (TRMR), Nexxen International (NEXN), Rackspace Technology (RXT), and Tiga Acquisition (TINV). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) and ZipRecruiter (NASDAQ:ZIP) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
GDS presently has a consensus target price of $15.69, suggesting a potential upside of 122.20%. ZipRecruiter has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 34.97%. Given ZipRecruiter's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe GDS is more favorable than ZipRecruiter.
GDS received 254 more outperform votes than ZipRecruiter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.72% of users gave GDS an outperform vote while only 58.93% of users gave ZipRecruiter an outperform vote.
ZipRecruiter has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GDS. GDS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ZipRecruiter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ZipRecruiter had 3 more articles in the media than GDS. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ZipRecruiter and 5 mentions for GDS. ZipRecruiter's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat GDS's score of 0.00 indicating that GDS is being referred to more favorably in the media.
33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of ZipRecruiter shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of GDS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of ZipRecruiter shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GDS has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZipRecruiter has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ZipRecruiter has a net margin of 7.60% compared to ZipRecruiter's net margin of -43.25%. ZipRecruiter's return on equity of -8.90% beat GDS's return on equity.
Summary
ZipRecruiter beats GDS on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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