ESTC vs. TTD, SNOW, DDOG, BIDU, VEEV, NET, PINS, HUBS, RBLX, and SNAP
Should you be buying Elastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elastic include Trade Desk (TTD), Snowflake (SNOW), Datadog (DDOG), Baidu (BIDU), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Cloudflare (NET), Pinterest (PINS), HubSpot (HUBS), Roblox (RBLX), and Snap (SNAP). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and profitability.
Trade Desk has higher revenue and earnings than Elastic. Elastic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 27 more articles in the media than Elastic. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Trade Desk and 7 mentions for Elastic. Elastic's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Trade Desk's score of 0.59 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the media.
67.8% of Trade Desk shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Trade Desk shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Elastic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trade Desk currently has a consensus target price of $100.38, suggesting a potential upside of 8.60%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $118.05, suggesting a potential upside of 4.81%. Given Elastic's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Trade Desk is more favorable than Elastic.
Trade Desk received 456 more outperform votes than Elastic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.12% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote while only 64.78% of users gave Elastic an outperform vote.
Trade Desk has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Trade Desk has a net margin of 9.80% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of 4.87%. Elastic's return on equity of 9.41% beat Trade Desk's return on equity.
Summary
Trade Desk beats Elastic on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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