YNDX vs. WIX, BZ, DV, DJT, DOCN, RUM, WB, GRND, GDS, and FDS
Should you be buying Yandex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yandex include Wix.com (WIX), Kanzhun (BZ), DoubleVerify (DV), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), DigitalOcean (DOCN), Rumble (RUM), Weibo (WB), Grindr (GRND), GDS (GDS), and FactSet Research Systems (FDS). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) and Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Wix.com received 17 more outperform votes than Yandex when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.76% of users gave Yandex an outperform vote while only 71.63% of users gave Wix.com an outperform vote.
21.9% of Yandex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.5% of Wix.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of Yandex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Wix.com shares are owned by 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.
Yandex has a net margin of 2.50% compared to Wix.com's net margin of 2.12%. Yandex's return on equity of 8.59% beat Wix.com's return on equity.
Yandex has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wix.com has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wix.com has a consensus target price of $144.29, suggesting a potential upside of 19.43%. Given Wix.com's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Wix.com is more favorable than Yandex.
In the previous week, Wix.com had 6 more articles in the media than Yandex. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Wix.com and 1 mentions for Yandex. Wix.com's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Yandex's score of 0.00 indicating that Wix.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yandex has higher revenue and earnings than Wix.com. Yandex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wix.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Yandex beats Wix.com on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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