ETSY vs. LYFT, WU, FLT, EBAY, GPN, KSPI, BR, CPAY, GRAB, and AKAM
Should you be buying Etsy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Etsy include Lyft (LYFT), Western Union (WU), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), eBay (EBAY), Global Payments (GPN), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), and Akamai Technologies (AKAM). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Lyft presently has a consensus target price of $16.70, indicating a potential upside of 6.95%. Etsy has a consensus target price of $79.96, indicating a potential upside of 25.98%. Given Lyft's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Etsy is more favorable than Lyft.
Etsy has a net margin of 10.75% compared to Etsy's net margin of -3.94%. Etsy's return on equity of -23.77% beat Lyft's return on equity.
Etsy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lyft. Lyft is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Etsy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lyft has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Etsy has a beta of 2, suggesting that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Etsy received 545 more outperform votes than Lyft when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.80% of users gave Etsy an outperform vote while only 55.58% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
83.1% of Lyft shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Etsy shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Lyft shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Etsy 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.
In the previous week, Lyft had 18 more articles in the media than Etsy. MarketBeat recorded 34 mentions for Lyft and 16 mentions for Etsy. Etsy's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Lyft's score of 0.45 indicating that Lyft is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Etsy beats Lyft on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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