EBAY vs. GPN, BR, CSGP, MSCI, Z, FIS, ETSY, MELI, DLTR, and CVNA
Should you be buying eBay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eBay include Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), CoStar Group (CSGP), MSCI (MSCI), Zillow Group (Z), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Etsy (ETSY), MercadoLibre (MELI), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and Carvana (CVNA).
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
eBay received 710 more outperform votes than Global Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.26% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 65.88% of users gave eBay an outperform vote.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
eBay has higher revenue and earnings than Global Payments. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. eBay pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Global Payments pays out 19.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. eBay pays out 21.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. eBay has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. eBay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of eBay shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, eBay had 15 more articles in the media than Global Payments. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for eBay and 13 mentions for Global Payments. eBay's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Global Payments' score of 0.63 indicating that Global Payments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Global Payments presently has a consensus target price of $149.11, indicating a potential upside of 45.11%. eBay has a consensus target price of $51.45, indicating a potential downside of 5.44%. Given eBay's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Global Payments is more favorable than eBay.
eBay has a net margin of 25.97% compared to eBay's net margin of 13.40%. Global Payments' return on equity of 29.11% beat eBay's return on equity.
Summary
eBay beats Global Payments on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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