PAY vs. WPS, FNX, BOKU, SEE, IOM, BKS, SPT, BYIT, NCC, and FDM
Should you be buying PayPoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPoint include W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Boku (BOKU), Seeing Machines (SEE), iomart Group (IOM), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Spirent Communications (SPT), Bytes Technology Group (BYIT), NCC Group (NCC), and FDM Group (FDM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
PayPoint (LON:PAY) and W.A.G payment solutions (LON:WPS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
61.6% of PayPoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.6% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.1% of PayPoint shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.8% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PayPoint had 1 more articles in the media than W.A.G payment solutions. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PayPoint and 1 mentions for W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat PayPoint's score of 0.30 indicating that W.A.G payment solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PayPoint received 345 more outperform votes than W.A.G payment solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave W.A.G payment solutions an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave PayPoint an outperform vote.
PayPoint has a net margin of 14.27% compared to W.A.G payment solutions' net margin of -2.19%. PayPoint's return on equity of 30.59% beat W.A.G payment solutions' return on equity.
PayPoint currently has a consensus price target of GBX 675, suggesting a potential upside of 23.18%. Given PayPoint's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PayPoint is more favorable than W.A.G payment solutions.
PayPoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPoint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PayPoint beats W.A.G payment solutions on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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