TRIP vs. PS, SVMK, SABR, FLWS, GRPN, VNET, CDLX, PETS, PRTS, and AMZN
Should you be buying Tripadvisor stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tripadvisor include Pluralsight (PS), SVMK (SVMK), Sabre (SABR), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Groupon (GRPN), VNET Group (VNET), Cardlytics (CDLX), PetMed Express (PETS), CarParts.com (PRTS), and Amazon.com (AMZN).
Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS) and Tripadvisor (NASDAQ:TRIP) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Tripadvisor has a consensus price target of $21.76, suggesting a potential upside of 18.61%. Given Pluralsight's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tripadvisor is more favorable than Pluralsight.
Pluralsight has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tripadvisor has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tripadvisor received 773 more outperform votes than Pluralsight when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.27% of users gave Pluralsight an outperform vote while only 57.77% of users gave Tripadvisor an outperform vote.
80.5% of Pluralsight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of Tripadvisor shares are held by institutional investors. 21.8% of Pluralsight shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Tripadvisor shares are held 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.
In the previous week, Tripadvisor had 14 more articles in the media than Pluralsight. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Tripadvisor and 0 mentions for Pluralsight. Pluralsight's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Tripadvisor's score of 0.00 indicating that Tripadvisor is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tripadvisor has a net margin of 1.32% compared to Tripadvisor's net margin of -33.16%. Pluralsight's return on equity of 12.03% beat Tripadvisor's return on equity.
Tripadvisor has higher revenue and earnings than Pluralsight. Pluralsight is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tripadvisor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tripadvisor beats Pluralsight on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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