Playtika (PLTK) Competitors

Playtika (NASDAQ:PLTK) and Toast (NYSE:TOST) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, PLTK or TOST?

Playtika has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Toast. Toast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Playtika, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Playtika	$2.57B	1.26	$235M	$0.55	15.89
Toast	$3.87B	2.84	-$246M	-$0.50	-48.46

Is PLTK or TOST more profitable?

Playtika has a net margin of 7.96% compared to Toast's net margin of -6.02%. Toast's return on equity of -21.45% beat Playtika's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Playtika	7.96%	-94.21%	7.98%
Toast	-6.02%	-21.45%	-12.99%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PLTK or TOST?

11.9% of Playtika shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Toast shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of Playtika shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Toast shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate PLTK or TOST?

Playtika currently has a consensus target price of $10.30, suggesting a potential upside of 17.80%. Toast has a consensus target price of $26.14, suggesting a potential upside of 7.89%. Given Playtika's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Playtika is more favorable than Toast.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Playtika	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.36
Toast	1 Sell rating(s)	11 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.41

Which has more volatility & risk, PLTK or TOST?

Playtika has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toast has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its share price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PLTK or TOST?

Toast received 7 more outperform votes than Playtika when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 47.92% of users gave Playtika an outperform vote while only 37.59% of users gave Toast an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Playtika	Outperform Votes 46 47.92%	Underperform Votes 50 52.08%
Toast	Outperform Votes 53 37.59%	Underperform Votes 88 62.41%

Does the media refer more to PLTK or TOST?

In the previous week, Toast had 20 more articles in the media than Playtika. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Toast and 1 mentions for Playtika. Playtika's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Toast's score of 0.54 indicating that Playtika is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Playtika	Very Positive
Toast	Positive

Summary

Toast beats Playtika on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.