TOST vs. VRSK, RDDT, GLOB, BILI, MARA, PEGA, STNE, PAGS, CLVT, and PLTK
Should you be buying Toast stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toast include Verisk Analytics (VRSK), Reddit (RDDT), Globant (GLOB), Bilibili (BILI), Marathon Digital (MARA), Pegasystems (PEGA), StoneCo (STNE), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Clarivate (CLVT), and Playtika (PLTK). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Toast (NYSE:TOST) and Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Verisk Analytics has a net margin of 28.45% compared to Toast's net margin of -6.02%. Verisk Analytics' return on equity of 268.19% beat Toast's return on equity.
82.9% of Toast shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Toast shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Toast has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Toast currently has a consensus target price of $26.14, suggesting a potential upside of 17.39%. Verisk Analytics has a consensus target price of $254.31, suggesting a potential downside of 3.01%. Given Toast's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Toast is more favorable than Verisk Analytics.
Verisk Analytics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Verisk Analytics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Verisk Analytics had 12 more articles in the media than Toast. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Verisk Analytics and 6 mentions for Toast. Verisk Analytics' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Toast's score of 0.96 indicating that Verisk Analytics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Verisk Analytics received 492 more outperform votes than Toast when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.11% of users gave Verisk Analytics an outperform vote while only 37.59% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.
Summary
Verisk Analytics beats Toast on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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