STNE vs. TOST, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, MARA, PEGA, PAGS, CLVT, PLTK, and GDRX
Should you be buying StoneCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of StoneCo include Toast (TOST), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), Marathon Digital (MARA), Pegasystems (PEGA), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Clarivate (CLVT), Playtika (PLTK), and GoodRx (GDRX). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) and Toast (NYSE:TOST) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
73.2% of StoneCo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Toast shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of StoneCo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Toast shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
StoneCo presently has a consensus target price of $19.60, suggesting a potential upside of 48.04%. Toast has a consensus target price of $26.14, suggesting a potential upside of 18.72%. Given StoneCo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe StoneCo is more favorable than Toast.
StoneCo has a beta of 2.36, meaning that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toast has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, StoneCo had 3 more articles in the media than Toast. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for StoneCo and 5 mentions for Toast. Toast's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat StoneCo's score of 0.94 indicating that Toast is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
StoneCo received 136 more outperform votes than Toast when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.59% of users gave StoneCo an outperform vote while only 37.59% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.
StoneCo has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than StoneCo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
StoneCo has a net margin of 14.08% compared to Toast's net margin of -6.02%. StoneCo's return on equity of 12.35% beat Toast's return on equity.
Summary
StoneCo beats Toast on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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