EXLS vs. STMP, ENV, HMSY, ADS, JKHY, WEX, G, MMS, EEFT, and WU
Should you be buying ExlService stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ExlService include Stamps.com (STMP), Envestnet (ENV), HMS (HMSY), Alliance Data Systems (ADS), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G), Maximus (MMS), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), and Western Union (WU).
Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP) and ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
ExlService has a consensus target price of $37.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.80%. Given Stamps.com's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ExlService is more favorable than Stamps.com.
Stamps.com has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ExlService has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
83.9% of Stamps.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of ExlService shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of Stamps.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of ExlService shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ExlService had 5 more articles in the media than Stamps.com. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for ExlService and 0 mentions for Stamps.com. Stamps.com's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat ExlService's score of 0.00 indicating that ExlService is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ExlService has higher revenue and earnings than Stamps.com. ExlService is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stamps.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Stamps.com has a net margin of 15.25% compared to Stamps.com's net margin of 10.92%. Stamps.com's return on equity of 23.13% beat ExlService's return on equity.
ExlService received 68 more outperform votes than Stamps.com when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.19% of users gave Stamps.com an outperform vote while only 61.17% of users gave ExlService an outperform vote.
Summary
ExlService beats Stamps.com on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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