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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Uber Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
26 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.68
Alibaba Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Uber Technologies$43.98B4.60$9.86B$5.7116.93
Alibaba Group$137.30B1.85$17.93B$7.4514.27

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Uber Technologies27.07% 66.46% 25.50%
Alibaba Group 13.03%13.64%8.05%

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Uber Technologies
55 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Alibaba Group
40 Very Positive mention(s)
14 Positive mention(s)
15 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BABA and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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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BABA vs. The Competition

MetricAlibaba GroupINTERNET COMMERCE IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$259.39B$70.22B$26.75B$20.71B
Dividend Yield0.95%2.18%175.53%3.72%
P/E Ratio14.2726.4127.2525.95
Price / Sales1.8514.054.7138.53
Price / Cash10.0633.1217.1518.22
Price / Book1.717.965.754.59
Net Income$17.93B$2.21B$872.97M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-6.25%3.10%2.73%1.73%
1 Month Performance-11.01%2.86%2.84%4.26%
1 Year Performance42.69%94.11%21.39%14.35%

Alibaba Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BABA
Alibaba Group
4.9521 of 5 stars
$106.33
-2.2%
$154.13
+45.0%
+45.8%$259.39B$137.30B14.27204,891Trending News
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.6479 of 5 stars
$92.32
+0.9%
$94.85
+2.7%
+31.5%$193.15B$43.98B16.1831,100Trending News
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SPGI
S&P Global
4.9042 of 5 stars
$522.53
+0.9%
$592.71
+13.4%
+17.2%$160.26B$14.49B41.0542,350Positive News
Analyst Forecast
PDD
PDD
4.4851 of 5 stars
$104.89
-0.2%
$144.55
+37.8%
-24.1%$146.02B$53.96B11.2923,465
MELI
MercadoLibre
3.8487 of 5 stars
$2,604.56
+1.7%
$2,645.94
+1.6%
+51.1%$132.20B$20.78B64.1318,282Positive News
DASH
DoorDash
3.0162 of 5 stars
$243.66
+0.6%
$214.76
-11.9%
+115.2%$103.32B$10.72B316.6623,700Analyst Forecast
RELX
Relx
2.8382 of 5 stars
$53.97
+0.3%
N/A+15.0%$101.34B$12.06B29.0235,700
PYPL
PayPal
4.3962 of 5 stars
$74.29
+0.9%
$83.42
+12.3%
+27.9%$72.14B$31.80B16.6029,900Positive News
WCN
Waste Connections
4.7684 of 5 stars
$186.06
+0.1%
$212.29
+14.1%
+1.5%$48.07B$8.92B76.5722,100Analyst Revision
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.8525 of 5 stars
$58.73
+0.1%
$77.25
+31.6%
+18.2%$38.34B$7.30B17.0133,700Gap Up
RDDT
Reddit
2.2718 of 5 stars
$151.28
+5.8%
$139.57
-7.7%
+115.6%$27.95B$1.30B256.702,233

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