DAO vs. VSTA, ICG, CTLP, CDLX, RXT, ADTN, GCI, XPER, NCMI, and WDH
Should you be buying Youdao stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Youdao include Vasta Platform (VSTA), Intchains Group (ICG), Cantaloupe (CTLP), Cardlytics (CDLX), Rackspace Technology (RXT), ADTRAN (ADTN), Gannett (GCI), Xperi (XPER), National CineMedia (NCMI), and Waterdrop (WDH). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Vasta Platform (NASDAQ:VSTA) and Youdao (NYSE:DAO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Vasta Platform has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Youdao.
Vasta Platform presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 66.20%. Youdao has a consensus price target of $4.60, suggesting a potential upside of 23.99%. Given Youdao's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Vasta Platform is more favorable than Youdao.
Vasta Platform has a net margin of -3.79% compared to Vasta Platform's net margin of -10.22%. Youdao's return on equity of 1.08% beat Vasta Platform's return on equity.
15.8% of Vasta Platform shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Youdao shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Vasta Platform shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.0% of Youdao shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vasta Platform has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Youdao has a beta of -0.06, suggesting that its stock price is 106% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Youdao had 3 more articles in the media than Vasta Platform. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Youdao and 0 mentions for Vasta Platform. Youdao's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Vasta Platform'saverage media sentiment score.
Youdao received 35 more outperform votes than Vasta Platform when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.97% of users gave Youdao an outperform vote while only 47.83% of users gave Vasta Platform an outperform vote.
Summary
Vasta Platform beats Youdao on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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