PYPL vs. CSGP, EBAY, GPN, PDD, BABA, ACN, UBER, FI, MELI, and RELX
Should you be buying PayPal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPal include CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), Global Payments (GPN), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Accenture (ACN), Uber Technologies (UBER), Fiserv (FI), MercadoLibre (MELI), and Relx (RELX). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
PayPal has a net margin of 14.26% compared to PayPal's net margin of 11.64%. CoStar Group's return on equity of 21.58% beat PayPal's return on equity.
96.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of CoStar Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than CoStar Group. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CoStar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CoStar Group has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CoStar Group presently has a consensus target price of $102.46, suggesting a potential upside of 31.08%. PayPal has a consensus target price of $73.59, suggesting a potential upside of 16.83%. Given PayPal's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CoStar Group is more favorable than PayPal.
In the previous week, PayPal had 49 more articles in the media than CoStar Group. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for PayPal and 9 mentions for CoStar Group. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat CoStar Group's score of 0.64 indicating that CoStar Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPal received 1151 more outperform votes than CoStar Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.34% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 75.45% of users gave CoStar Group an outperform vote.
Summary
PayPal beats CoStar Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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