PUBM vs. IAC, DOCN, DV, TRIP, RUM, WB, MGNI, GRND, IAS, and GDS
Should you be buying PubMatic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PubMatic include IAC (IAC), DigitalOcean (DOCN), DoubleVerify (DV), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Rumble (RUM), Weibo (WB), Magnite (MGNI), Grindr (GRND), Integral Ad Science (IAS), and GDS (GDS). These companies are all part of the "computer programming, data processing, & other computer related" industry.
PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) and IAC (NASDAQ:IAC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
PubMatic currently has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.02%. IAC has a consensus price target of $79.92, indicating a potential upside of 60.51%. Given IAC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe IAC is more favorable than PubMatic.
PubMatic has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IAC has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PubMatic has a net margin of 4.42% compared to IAC's net margin of -2.54%. PubMatic's return on equity of 4.21% beat IAC's return on equity.
IAC has higher revenue and earnings than PubMatic. IAC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PubMatic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
64.3% of PubMatic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.9% of IAC shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of PubMatic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of IAC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
IAC received 1007 more outperform votes than PubMatic when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.24% of users gave IAC an outperform vote while only 59.55% of users gave PubMatic an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PubMatic had 2 more articles in the media than IAC. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for PubMatic and 7 mentions for IAC. IAC's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat PubMatic's score of 0.34 indicating that IAC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
IAC beats PubMatic on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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