DoorDash (NYSE:DASH – Get Rating) is one of 228 publicly-traded companies in the “Business services, not elsewhere classified” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare DoorDash to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares DoorDash and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DoorDash | -9.97% | -11.29% | -8.02% |
| DoorDash Competitors | -16.92% | -52.17% | -7.45% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for DoorDash and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| DoorDash | 0 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 2.63 |
| DoorDash Competitors | 1424 | 6979 | 12320 | 349 | 2.55 |
DoorDash presently has a consensus target price of $151.24, suggesting a potential upside of 143.23%. As a group, “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies have a potential upside of 56.22%. Given DoorDash’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe DoorDash is more favorable than its peers.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares DoorDash and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DoorDash | $4.89 billion | -$468.00 million | -40.64 |
| DoorDash Competitors | $3.41 billion | $342.84 million | 15.44 |
DoorDash has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its peers. DoorDash 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.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
90.6% of DoorDash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are owned by institutional investors. 15.5% of DoorDash shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of shares of all “Business services, not elsewhere classified” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
DoorDash has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DoorDash’s peers have a beta of 1.04, suggesting that their average stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
DoorDash beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.
About DoorDash (Get Rating)
DoorDash, Inc. operates a logistics platform that connects merchants, consumers, and dashers in the United States and internationally. It operates DoorDash marketplace, which provides an array of services that enable merchants to solve mission-critical challenges, such as customer acquisition, delivery, insights and analytics, merchandising, payment processing, and customer support; and offers DoorDash Drive, a white-label logistics service; DoorDash Storefront that enables merchants to offer consumers on-demand access to e-commerce. The company was formerly known as Palo Alto Delivery Inc. and changed its name to DoorDash, Inc. in 2015. DoorDash, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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