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:GOOG) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Alphabet pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Alphabet pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Alphabet pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alphabet pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
27.3% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of Alphabet shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Alphabet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alphabet currently has a consensus target price of $165.67, suggesting a potential downside of 6.56%. Alphabet has a consensus target price of $190.60, suggesting a potential upside of 8.26%. Given Alphabet's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Alphabet.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 1 more articles in the media than Alphabet. MarketBeat recorded 122 mentions for Alphabet and 121 mentions for Alphabet. Alphabet's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Alphabet's score of 0.48 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alphabet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alphabet beats Alphabet on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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