MSCI vs. CSGP, FICO, DASH, AKAM, ZG, PYPL, RELX, UBER, DDOG, and BIDU
Should you be buying MSCI stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MSCI include CoStar Group (CSGP), Fair Isaac (FICO), DoorDash (DASH), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Zillow Group (ZG), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), Uber Technologies (UBER), Datadog (DDOG), and Baidu (BIDU). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) and CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
CoStar Group received 105 more outperform votes than MSCI when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.45% of users gave CoStar Group an outperform vote while only 65.67% of users gave MSCI an outperform vote.
90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of MSCI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MSCI presently has a consensus target price of $570.53, suggesting a potential upside of 12.90%. CoStar Group has a consensus target price of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 17.10%. Given CoStar Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CoStar Group is more favorable than MSCI.
MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. MSCI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoStar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MSCI has a net margin of 44.55% compared to CoStar Group's net margin of 11.64%. CoStar Group's return on equity of 4.95% beat MSCI's return on equity.
MSCI has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CoStar Group has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MSCI had 30 more articles in the media than CoStar Group. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for MSCI and 5 mentions for CoStar Group. CoStar Group's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat MSCI's score of 0.49 indicating that CoStar Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MSCI and CoStar Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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