MELI vs. CSGP, EBAY, PDD, BABA, ACN, UBER, FI, RELX, PYPL, and DASH
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Accenture (ACN), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FI), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), and DoorDash (DASH). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
CoStar Group presently has a consensus price target of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 31.08%. MercadoLibre has a consensus price target of $1,881.92, suggesting a potential upside of 9.06%. Given MercadoLibre's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CoStar Group is more favorable than MercadoLibre.
MercadoLibre received 15 more outperform votes than CoStar Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.45% of users gave CoStar Group an outperform vote while only 65.19% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
In the previous week, MercadoLibre had 10 more articles in the media than CoStar Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for MercadoLibre and 8 mentions for CoStar Group. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat CoStar Group's score of 0.92 indicating that CoStar Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CoStar Group has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CoStar Group has a net margin of 11.64% compared to CoStar Group's net margin of 7.17%. CoStar Group's return on equity of 39.46% beat MercadoLibre's return on equity.
MercadoLibre has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. MercadoLibre is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoStar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
96.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
CoStar Group and MercadoLibre tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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