GOOGL vs. GOOG, META, NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, TSM, AVGO, TTD, BIDU, and PINS
Should you be buying Alphabet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alphabet include Alphabet (GOOG), Meta Platforms (META), NVIDIA (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), Trade Desk (TTD), Baidu (BIDU), and Pinterest (PINS). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
Alphabet received 266 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 84.66% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 82.70% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 5 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 112 mentions for Alphabet and 107 mentions for Alphabet. Alphabet's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Alphabet's score of 0.49 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphabet presently has a consensus price target of $190.60, indicating a potential upside of 8.26%. Alphabet has a consensus price target of $165.67, indicating a potential downside of 6.56%. Given Alphabet's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Alphabet.
Summary
Alphabet beats Alphabet on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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