BABA vs. PDD, MELI, MCD, LOW, BKNG, TJX, SBUX, CVS, CMG, and TGT
Should you be buying Alibaba Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alibaba Group include PDD (PDD), MercadoLibre (MELI), McDonald's (MCD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), Starbucks (SBUX), CVS Health (CVS), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), and Target (TGT). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.
Alibaba Group presently has a consensus price target of $112.91, suggesting a potential upside of 49.45%. PDD has a consensus price target of $146.85, suggesting a potential upside of 13.56%. Given Alibaba Group's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Alibaba Group is more favorable than PDD.
In the previous week, Alibaba Group had 2 more articles in the media than PDD. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Alibaba Group and 20 mentions for PDD. Alibaba Group's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat PDD's score of 0.40 indicating that Alibaba Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alibaba Group has higher revenue and earnings than PDD. Alibaba Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PDD, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PDD has a net margin of 24.23% compared to Alibaba Group's net margin of 10.75%. PDD's return on equity of 39.10% beat Alibaba Group's return on equity.
13.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of PDD shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Alibaba Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alibaba Group has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alibaba Group received 2249 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.32% of users gave Alibaba Group an outperform vote while only 58.81% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
Summary
Alibaba Group and PDD tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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