MSCI vs. CSGP, FICO, DASH, AKAM, ZG, PYPL, RELX, SE, STM, and BIDU
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include CoStar Group (CSGP), Fair Isaac (FICO), DoorDash (DASH), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Zillow Group (ZG), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), SEA (SE), STMicroelectronics (STM), and Baidu (BIDU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) 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, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. MSCI 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, 90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CoStar Group currently has a consensus price target of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 13.77%. MSCI has a consensus price target of $569.53, suggesting a potential upside of 21.84%. Given CoStar Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than CoStar Group.
In the previous week, MSCI had 2 more articles in the media than CoStar Group. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for MSCI and 35 mentions for CoStar Group. CoStar Group's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat MSCI's score of 0.25 indicating that MSCI is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CoStar Group has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MSCI has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CoStar Group received 106 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.45% of users gave CoStar Group an outperform vote while only 65.63% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
MSCI has a net margin of 44.55% compared to MSCI's net margin of 11.64%. MSCI's return on equity of 4.95% beat CoStar Group's return on equity.
Summary
MSCI beats CoStar Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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