TOST vs. VRSK, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, MARA, PEGA, CLVT, PAGS, STNE, and DXC
Should you be buying Toast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toast include Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), Marathon Digital (MARA), Pegasystems (PEGA), Clarivate (CLVT), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), StoneCo (STNE), and DXC Technology (DXC). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) and Toast (NYSE:TOST) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Verisk Analytics presently has a consensus price target of $258.54, indicating a potential downside of 7.65%. Toast has a consensus price target of $26.65, indicating a potential upside of 3.76%. Given Verisk Analytics' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Toast is more favorable than Verisk Analytics.
Verisk Analytics received 491 more outperform votes than Toast when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.96% of users gave Verisk Analytics an outperform vote while only 38.03% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.
Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toast has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Verisk Analytics has a net margin of 28.45% compared to Verisk Analytics' net margin of -6.02%. Toast's return on equity of 268.19% beat Verisk Analytics' return on equity.
90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Toast shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Toast shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Toast had 12 more articles in the media than Verisk Analytics. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Toast and 14 mentions for Verisk Analytics. Toast's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Verisk Analytics' score of 0.51 indicating that Verisk Analytics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Verisk Analytics has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Verisk Analytics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Verisk Analytics beats Toast on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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