APG vs. DUOL, AFRM, PCOR, CART, ESTC, STN, WPP, PATH, CLH, and IPG
Should you be buying APi Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of APi Group include Duolingo (DUOL), Affirm (AFRM), Procore Technologies (PCOR), Maplebear (CART), Elastic (ESTC), Stantec (STN), WPP (WPP), UiPath (PATH), Clean Harbors (CLH), and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) and APi Group (NYSE:APG) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
91.6% of Duolingo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of APi Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.9% of Duolingo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of APi Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Duolingo has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, APi Group has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Duolingo had 19 more articles in the media than APi Group. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Duolingo and 6 mentions for APi Group. Duolingo's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat APi Group's score of 0.78 indicating that APi Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Duolingo presently has a consensus target price of $244.63, indicating a potential upside of 36.56%. APi Group has a consensus target price of $44.29, indicating a potential upside of 23.60%. Given APi Group's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Duolingo is more favorable than APi Group.
APi Group has higher revenue and earnings than Duolingo. APi Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duolingo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duolingo has a net margin of 7.82% compared to Duolingo's net margin of 2.49%. Duolingo's return on equity of 37.83% beat APi Group's return on equity.
APi Group received 1 more outperform votes than Duolingo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.57% of users gave APi Group an outperform vote while only 41.25% of users gave Duolingo an outperform vote.
Summary
APi Group beats Duolingo on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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