EXLS vs. MMS, WU, PAY, PHR, RPAY, WEX, FOUR, TNET, NVEI, and DLO
Should you be buying ExlService stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ExlService include Maximus (MMS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), Phreesia (PHR), Repay (RPAY), WEX (WEX), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), TriNet Group (TNET), Nuvei (NVEI), and DLocal (DLO). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Maximus presently has a consensus price target of $102.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.28%. ExlService has a consensus price target of $36.14, suggesting a potential upside of 24.33%. Given ExlService's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Maximus is more favorable than ExlService.
In the previous week, Maximus had 1 more articles in the media than ExlService. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Maximus and 8 mentions for ExlService. ExlService's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Maximus' score of 0.29 indicating that Maximus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.2% of Maximus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of ExlService shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ExlService has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maximus. ExlService is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maximus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ExlService has a net margin of 11.32% compared to ExlService's net margin of 3.73%. Maximus' return on equity of 22.83% beat ExlService's return on equity.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ExlService has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
ExlService received 99 more outperform votes than Maximus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 61.08% of users gave ExlService an outperform vote.
Summary
ExlService beats Maximus on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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