LYFT vs. ETSY, WU, FVRR, BR, KSPI, CPAY, GRAB, AKAM, RBA, and Z
Should you be buying Lyft stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lyft include Etsy (ETSY), Western Union (WU), Fiverr International (FVRR), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), RB Global (RBA), and Zillow Group (Z). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Etsy shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Lyft shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Etsy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lyft has a beta of 2.05, meaning that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Etsy has a beta of 2, meaning that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lyft currently 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 Etsy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Etsy is more favorable than Lyft.
In the previous week, Lyft had 16 more articles in the media than Etsy. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Lyft and 16 mentions for Etsy. Lyft's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Etsy's score of 0.45 indicating that Lyft is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Etsy has a net margin of 10.75% compared to Lyft's net margin of -3.94%. Lyft's return on equity of -23.77% beat Etsy'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.
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.
Summary
Etsy beats Lyft on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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