META vs. GOOGL, GOOG, TSM, AVGO, ASML, ORCL, BABA, UBER, BKNG, and NVDA
Should you be buying Meta Platforms stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Platforms include Alphabet (GOOGL), Alphabet (GOOG), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), Broadcom (AVGO), ASML (ASML), Oracle (ORCL), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), Booking (BKNG), and NVIDIA (NVDA).
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
Alphabet has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meta Platforms has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alphabet presently has a consensus target price of $190.60, indicating a potential upside of 8.26%. Meta Platforms has a consensus target price of $509.80, indicating a potential upside of 8.03%. Given Meta Platforms' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alphabet is more favorable than Meta Platforms.
In the previous week, Alphabet had 21 more articles in the media than Meta Platforms. MarketBeat recorded 123 mentions for Alphabet and 102 mentions for Meta Platforms. Meta Platforms' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Alphabet's score of 0.26 indicating that Alphabet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alphabet has higher revenue and earnings than Meta Platforms. Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Meta Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
40.0% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Meta Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Alphabet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.7% of Meta Platforms shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Meta Platforms has a net margin of 32.06% compared to Meta Platforms' net margin of 25.90%. Alphabet's return on equity of 32.03% beat Meta Platforms' return on equity.
Meta Platforms received 2000 more outperform votes than Alphabet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.66% of users gave Alphabet an outperform vote while only 80.96% of users gave Meta Platforms an outperform vote.
Summary
Meta Platforms beats Alphabet on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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