META vs. GOOGL, GOOG, TSM, AVGO, NVDA, ASML, ORCL, BABA, UBER, and BKNG
Should you be buying Meta Platforms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Platforms include Alphabet (GOOGL), Alphabet (GOOG), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), NVIDIA (NVDA), ASML (ASML), Oracle (ORCL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), and Booking (BKNG).
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Meta Platforms shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alphabet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Meta Platforms shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Meta Platforms had 44 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 244 mentions for Meta Platforms and 200 mentions for Alphabet. Meta Platforms' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Alphabet's score of 0.11 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Meta Platforms received 2005 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.66% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 80.98% of users gave Meta Platforms an outperform vote.
Alphabet has higher revenue and earnings than Meta Platforms. Meta Platforms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphabet presently has a consensus target price of $187.82, indicating a potential upside of 9.23%. Meta Platforms has a consensus target price of $509.18, indicating a potential upside of 14.86%. Given Alphabet's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Meta Platforms is more favorable than Alphabet.
Meta Platforms has a net margin of 32.06% compared to Meta Platforms' net margin of 25.90%. Alphabet's return on equity of 32.03% beat Meta Platforms' return on equity.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meta Platforms has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Meta Platforms beats Alphabet on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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