RHT vs. TTD, ZM, PINS, SNAP, BIDU, ON, MTD, AME, ORAN, and CRWD
Should you be buying Red Hat stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Red Hat include Trade Desk (TTD), Zoom Video Communications (ZM), Pinterest (PINS), Snap (SNAP), Baidu (BIDU), onsemi (ON), Mettler-Toledo International (MTD), AMETEK (AME), Orange (ORAN), and CrowdStrike (CRWD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Red Hat vs.
Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) and Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
In the previous week, Trade Desk had 14 more articles in the media than Red Hat. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Trade Desk and 1 mentions for Red Hat. Trade Desk's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Red Hat's score of 0.00 indicating that Trade Desk is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Red Hat has a net margin of 13.26% compared to Trade Desk's net margin of 3.38%. Red Hat's return on equity of 36.67% beat Trade Desk's return on equity.
Trade Desk has a consensus target price of $71.30, suggesting a potential upside of 18.66%.
85.8% of Red Hat shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of Trade Desk shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Red Hat shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Trade Desk shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Red Hat has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trade Desk has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Red Hat has higher revenue and earnings than Trade Desk. Red Hat is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trade Desk, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Red Hat received 941 more outperform votes than Trade Desk when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.41% of users gave Red Hat an outperform vote while only 77.07% of users gave Trade Desk an outperform vote.
Summary
Red Hat beats Trade Desk on 9 of the 15 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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