DASH vs. BABA, UBER, SPGI, PDD, MELI, RELX, PYPL, WCN, TCOM, and IQV
Should you be buying DoorDash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DoorDash include Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), S&P Global (SPGI), PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), and IQVIA (IQV). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
DoorDash vs. Its Competitors
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of DoorDash shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of DoorDash shares are owned by 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.
Alibaba Group has a net margin of 13.03% compared to DoorDash's net margin of 3.02%. Alibaba Group's return on equity of 13.64% beat DoorDash's return on equity.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DoorDash has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alibaba Group received 2543 more outperform votes than DoorDash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.33% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 51.47% of users gave DoorDash an outperform vote.
Alibaba Group presently has a consensus price target of $154.21, suggesting a potential upside of 36.59%. DoorDash has a consensus price target of $210.21, suggesting a potential downside of 4.65%. Given Alibaba Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than DoorDash.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than DoorDash. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DoorDash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 13 more articles in the media than DoorDash. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Alibaba Group and 41 mentions for DoorDash. Alibaba Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat DoorDash's score of 0.67 indicating that Alibaba Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alibaba Group beats DoorDash on 14 of the 19 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 NASDAQ 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 (NASDAQ:DASH) was last updated on 6/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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