Head-To-Head Comparison: Reddit (RDDT) and Its Peers

Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) is one of 151 public companies in the “Data processing & preparation” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Reddit to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Reddit and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Reddit	1	9	11	1	2.55
Reddit Competitors	872	4629	6199	161	2.48

Reddit presently has a consensus price target of $175.95, indicating a potential upside of 8.53%. As a group, “Data processing & preparation” companies have a potential upside of 14.50%. Given Reddit’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Reddit has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

46.1% of shares of all “Data processing & preparation” companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.2% of shares of all “Data processing & preparation” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Reddit and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Reddit	-37.25%	-24.71%	-22.52%
Reddit Competitors	-158.77%	-1,791.07%	-8.24%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Reddit and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Reddit	$1.30 billion	-$484.28 million	-20.97
Reddit Competitors	$5.51 billion	$11.45 million	-11.41

Reddit’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Reddit. Reddit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Reddit peers beat Reddit on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

Reddit Company Profile

Reddit, Inc. operates a website that organizes digital communities. It organizes communities based on specific interests that enable users to engage in conversations by sharing experiences, submitting links, uploading images and videos, and replying to one another. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.