BABA vs. UBER, SPGI, PDD, MELI, DASH, RELX, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and RDDT
Should you be buying Alibaba Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alibaba Group include Uber Technologies (UBER), S&P Global (SPGI), PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), DoorDash (DASH), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and Reddit (RDDT). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Alibaba Group vs. Its Competitors
Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) and Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and risk.
Uber Technologies has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Uber Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $95.44, indicating a potential downside of 1.27%. Alibaba Group has a consensus price target of $154.13, indicating a potential upside of 44.96%. Given Alibaba Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than Uber Technologies.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than Uber Technologies. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Uber Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.2% of Uber Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Uber Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Uber Technologies has a net margin of 27.07% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 13.03%. Uber Technologies' return on equity of 66.46% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Uber Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Alibaba Group. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Uber Technologies and 69 mentions for Alibaba Group. Uber Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Alibaba Group's score of 0.83 indicating that Uber Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Uber Technologies beats Alibaba Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:BABA) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
