COIN vs. SQ, PYPL, GPN, SYF, AFRM, BILL, DLO, MQ, AXP, and TFC
Should you be buying Coinbase Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coinbase Global include Block (SQ), PayPal (PYPL), Global Payments (GPN), Synchrony Financial (SYF), Affirm (AFRM), BILL (BILL), DLocal (DLO), Marqeta (MQ), American Express (AXP), and Truist Financial (TFC).
Block (NYSE:SQ) and Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
70.4% of Block shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.8% of Coinbase Global shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Block shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.2% of Coinbase Global shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Block presently has a consensus target price of $87.55, indicating a potential upside of 23.06%. Coinbase Global has a consensus target price of $200.63, indicating a potential downside of 5.00%. Given Coinbase Global's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Block is more favorable than Coinbase Global.
Coinbase Global has a net margin of 33.98% compared to Coinbase Global's net margin of 2.18%. Block's return on equity of 9.42% beat Coinbase Global's return on equity.
Block received 1295 more outperform votes than Coinbase Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.52% of users gave Block an outperform vote while only 42.76% of users gave Coinbase Global an outperform vote.
Coinbase Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Block. Coinbase Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Block, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Coinbase Global had 23 more articles in the media than Block. MarketBeat recorded 80 mentions for Coinbase Global and 57 mentions for Block. Block's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Coinbase Global's score of 0.04 indicating that Coinbase Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Block has a beta of 2.57, suggesting that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coinbase Global has a beta of 3.46, suggesting that its stock price is 246% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Block and Coinbase Global tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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