EEFT vs. UEPS, USIO, JKHY, WEX, G, MMS, EXLS, WU, PAY, and CSGS
Should you be buying Euronet Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Euronet Worldwide include Net 1 UEPS Technologies (UEPS), Usio (USIO), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), WEX (WEX), Genpact (G), Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), and CSG Systems International (CSGS).
Net 1 UEPS Technologies (NASDAQ:UEPS) and Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Euronet Worldwide has a consensus target price of $123.56, suggesting a potential upside of 9.84%.
Euronet Worldwide received 211 more outperform votes than Net 1 UEPS Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.36% of users gave Euronet Worldwide an outperform vote while only 51.74% of users gave Net 1 UEPS Technologies an outperform vote.
47.1% of Net 1 UEPS Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Net 1 UEPS Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.5% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by 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.
Net 1 UEPS Technologies has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Euronet Worldwide has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Euronet Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Net 1 UEPS Technologies. Net 1 UEPS Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Euronet Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Euronet Worldwide had 4 more articles in the media than Net 1 UEPS Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Euronet Worldwide and 0 mentions for Net 1 UEPS Technologies. Net 1 UEPS Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Euronet Worldwide's score of 0.00 indicating that Euronet Worldwide is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Euronet Worldwide has a net margin of 7.63% compared to Euronet Worldwide's net margin of -20.01%. Net 1 UEPS Technologies' return on equity of 26.71% beat Euronet Worldwide's return on equity.
Summary
Euronet Worldwide beats Net 1 UEPS Technologies on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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