GOOGL vs. GOOG, META, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, TSM, AVGO, TTD, BIDU, and SNAP
Should you be buying Alphabet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alphabet include Alphabet (GOOG), Meta Platforms (META), NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), and Snap (SNAP). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 73 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 212 mentions for Alphabet and 139 mentions for Alphabet. Alphabet's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Alphabet's score of 0.54 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alphabet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphabet received 262 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.64% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 82.70% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote.
Alphabet presently has a consensus price target of $190.60, suggesting a potential upside of 14.39%. Alphabet has a consensus price target of $165.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.66%. Given Alphabet's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Alphabet.
Summary
Alphabet beats Alphabet on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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