ETSY vs. LYFT, ZG, WU, Z, ALIT, AKAM, WIX, MTSI, GLOB, and WTS
Should you be buying Etsy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Etsy include Lyft (LYFT), Zillow Group (ZG), Western Union (WU), Zillow Group (Z), Alight (ALIT), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Wix.com (WIX), MACOM Technology Solutions (MTSI), Globant (GLOB), and Watts Water Technologies (WTS).
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 businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Lyft has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Etsy has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.1% of Lyft shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Etsy shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lyft had 25 more articles in the media than Etsy. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Lyft and 15 mentions for Etsy. Lyft's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Etsy's score of 0.00 indicating that Etsy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 55.68% of users gave Lyft an outperform vote.
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.
Lyft currently has a consensus price target of $16.70, indicating a potential downside of 1.50%. Etsy has a consensus price target of $79.96, indicating a potential upside of 24.76%. Given Lyft's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Etsy is more favorable than Lyft.
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.
Summary
Etsy beats Lyft on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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