MercadoLibre vs Uber Technologies
MELI and UBER side by side, both in miscellaneous business services. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How MELI and UBER compare
Uber Technologies is the larger company, worth 1.9 times as much as MercadoLibre ($144B against $76.7B).
On earnings, MercadoLibre is cheaper: it trades at 40.6× trailing earnings, against 41.8× for Uber Technologies.
MercadoLibre grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (47.1% versus 13.9% for Uber Technologies).
Uber Technologies keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 6.1% compared with 4.9% at MercadoLibre.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | MELI | UBER |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $76.7B | $144B |
| Share price | $1512.02 | $70.68 |
| Change, 1 year | −27.7% | −24.9% |
| Change, 5 years | 7.9% | 59.8% |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.58 | 1.27 |
| Employees | 20K | 34K |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 13 | 13 |
| Valuation score | 3 (better) | 1 |
| Growth score | 3 | 3 |
| Performance score | 4 | 4 |
| Health score | 3 | 5 (better) |
| Dividend score | 0 | 0 |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | 40.6× (better) | 41.8× |
| P/S | 2.0× (better) | 2.6× |
| P/B | 9.3× | 5.2× (better) |
| EV/EBITDA | 19.3× | 19.2× (better) |
| P/FCF | 6.3× (better) | 13.9× |
| PEG | 0.67 | – |
| FCF yield | 16.0% (better) | 7.2% |
| Fair value | $1680.07 | $63.67 |
| Margin of safety | 10.0% (better) | −11.0% |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | 47.1% (better) | 13.9% |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 48.7% (better) | 36.1% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | −9.0% (better) | −79.2% |
| EPS growth (TTM) | −9.0% (better) | −78.3% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 42.0% | 43.2% (better) |
| Operating margin | 7.4% | 12.4% (better) |
| Net margin | 4.9% | 6.1% (better) |
| FCF margin | 31.8% (better) | 18.4% |
| Return on equity | 26.2% (better) | 12.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 47.4% (better) | 16.4% |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | 0.84 | 0.57 (better) |
| Net debt / EBITDA | −0.12 | 0.72 (better) |
| Interest coverage | – | 14.0× |
| Current ratio | 1.17 | 1.23 (better) |
| Altman Z-score | 2.09 | 3.09 (better) |
| Piotroski F-score | 5 | 5 |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | – | 0.00% |
| Years of dividend growth | – | 0 |
| Buyback yield | – | 4.3% |
| Shareholder yield | 0.00% | 4.3% (better) |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 78.1% | 82.6% |
| Held by insiders | 6.9% | 0.19% |
| Insider net buying, 12 months | −$1.0M | $12.2M (better) |
| Superinvestors holding | 7 | 11 (better) |
| Short interest, % of float | 2.2% | 2.2% |
Go deeper
- MELI stock overview
- MELI income statement
- MELI valuation and score
- UBER stock overview
- UBER income statement
- UBER valuation and score
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