SYM vs. APP, VLTO, GPN, BR, RKT, KSPI, APTV, EFX, STX, and CPAY
Should you be buying Symbotic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Symbotic include AppLovin (APP), Veralto (VLTO), Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Rocket Companies (RKT), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Aptiv (APTV), Equifax (EFX), Seagate Technology (STX), and Corpay (CPAY). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.97, suggesting that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppLovin has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AppLovin had 24 more articles in the media than Symbotic. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for AppLovin and 13 mentions for Symbotic. AppLovin's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Symbotic's score of 0.48 indicating that AppLovin is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Symbotic presently has a consensus target price of $55.69, suggesting a potential upside of 26.60%. AppLovin has a consensus target price of $71.72, suggesting a potential downside of 13.06%. Given Symbotic's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Symbotic is more favorable than AppLovin.
AppLovin has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppLovin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AppLovin received 41 more outperform votes than Symbotic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.06% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote while only 46.84% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
AppLovin has a net margin of 16.46% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -1.27%. AppLovin's return on equity of 51.55% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
41.9% of AppLovin shares are held by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.7% of AppLovin shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
AppLovin beats Symbotic on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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