MAX vs. LIF, ATHM, FA, RNG, FIVN, CNXC, WNS, STNE, PLTK, and FLYW
Should you be buying MediaAlpha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MediaAlpha include Life360 (LIF), Autohome (ATHM), First Advantage (FA), RingCentral (RNG), Five9 (FIVN), Concentrix (CNXC), WNS (WNS), StoneCo (STNE), Playtika (PLTK), and Flywire (FLYW). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
MediaAlpha vs.
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Life360 (NASDAQ:LIF) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
MediaAlpha has a net margin of 1.41% compared to Life360's net margin of -4.72%. Life360's return on equity of -4.03% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
In the previous week, Life360 had 5 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Life360 and 2 mentions for MediaAlpha. Life360's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.06 indicating that Life360 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Life360 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than MediaAlpha.
MediaAlpha currently has a consensus price target of $21.57, indicating a potential upside of 84.45%. Life360 has a consensus price target of $47.63, indicating a potential upside of 1.34%. Given MediaAlpha's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Life360.
MediaAlpha received 27 more outperform votes than Life360 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 83.33% of users gave Life360 an outperform vote while only 67.74% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.0% of Life360 shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned 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.
Summary
Life360 beats MediaAlpha on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MAX) was last updated on 2/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff