DUOL vs. NTES, INFY, SNOW, RBLX, NET, CRWV, TEAM, ZS, VEEV, and DDOG
Should you be buying Duolingo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duolingo include NetEase (NTES), Infosys (INFY), Snowflake (SNOW), Roblox (RBLX), Cloudflare (NET), CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV), Atlassian (TEAM), Zscaler (ZS), Veeva Systems (VEEV), and Datadog (DDOG). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Duolingo vs.
NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) and Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
NetEase has higher revenue and earnings than Duolingo. NetEase is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NetEase has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duolingo has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
11.1% of NetEase shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Duolingo shares are held by institutional investors. 54.7% of NetEase shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.7% of Duolingo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NetEase has a net margin of 28.17% compared to Duolingo's net margin of 12.59%. NetEase's return on equity of 22.12% beat Duolingo's return on equity.
NetEase received 605 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.13% of users gave NetEase an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 29 more articles in the media than NetEase. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Duolingo and 9 mentions for NetEase. NetEase's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Duolingo's score of 0.60 indicating that NetEase is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NetEase currently has a consensus price target of $119.38, indicating a potential downside of 9.11%. Duolingo has a consensus price target of $441.29, indicating a potential downside of 9.20%. Given NetEase's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe NetEase is more favorable than Duolingo.
Summary
NetEase beats Duolingo on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DUOL) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
