Moody's (NYSE:MCO) Vs. WFC, SE, QQQ, MS, RY, SCHW, C, HDB, AXP, and BLK
Should you be buying Moody's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Moody's include Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), SEA (SE), Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), Morgan Stanley (MS), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), The Charles Schwab (SCHW), Citigroup (C), HDFC Bank (HDB), American Express (AXP), and BlackRock (BLK). These companies are all part of the "specialized finance" industry.These companies are all part of the "consumer credit reporting agencies, mercantile reporting agencies," industry.These companies are all part of the "consumer credit reporting agencies, mercantile reporting agencies," industry.These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Moody's vs.
Moody's (NYSE:MCO) and SEA (NYSE:SE) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Moody's has a net margin of 36.11% compared to SEA's net margin of -26.46%. Moody's' return on equity of 111.33% beat SEA's return on equity.
Moody's currently has a consensus target price of $387.60, suggesting a potential upside of 3.76%. SEA has a consensus target price of $313.36, suggesting a potential downside of 12.89%. Given Moody's' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Moody's is more favorable than SEA.
90.9% of Moody's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of SEA shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Moody's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of SEA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Moody's had 33 more articles in the media than SEA. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Moody's and 6 mentions for SEA. SEA's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Moody's' score of 0.03 indicating that SEA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Moody's has higher revenue and earnings than SEA. SEA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Moody's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Moody's has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SEA has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Moody's received 37 more outperform votes than SEA when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.42% of users gave SEA an outperform vote while only 64.02% of users gave Moody's an outperform vote.
Summary
Moody's beats SEA on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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