ACN vs. PDD, UBER, FI, MELI, PYPL, IT, CSGP, EBAY, BAH, and FDS
Should you be buying Accenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accenture include PDD (PDD), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FI), MercadoLibre (MELI), PayPal (PYPL), Gartner (IT), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), and FactSet Research Systems (FDS).
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
Accenture presently has a consensus price target of $387.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.65%. PDD has a consensus price target of $146.85, indicating a potential upside of 13.56%. Given Accenture's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than PDD.
PDD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accenture. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accenture has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Accenture had 6 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Accenture and 20 mentions for PDD. Accenture's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat PDD's score of 0.40 indicating that Accenture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PDD has a net margin of 24.23% compared to Accenture's net margin of 10.89%. PDD's return on equity of 39.10% beat Accenture's return on equity.
Accenture received 742 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.37% of users gave Accenture an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Summary
Accenture beats PDD on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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