FCFS vs. KVYO, G, VNT, SPSC, SPXC, TNET, FOUR, ULS, MARA, and RCM
Should you be buying FirstCash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstCash include Klaviyo (KVYO), Genpact (G), Vontier (VNT), SPS Commerce (SPSC), SPX Technologies (SPXC), TriNet Group (TNET), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), UL Solutions (ULS), Marathon Digital (MARA), and R1 RCM (RCM). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Klaviyo (NYSE:KVYO) and FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
45.4% of Klaviyo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of FirstCash shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.1% of FirstCash shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, FirstCash had 13 more articles in the media than Klaviyo. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for FirstCash and 4 mentions for Klaviyo. Klaviyo's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat FirstCash's score of -0.15 indicating that FirstCash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Klaviyo received 7 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Klaviyo an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.
FirstCash has a net margin of 7.23% compared to FirstCash's net margin of 0.00%. Klaviyo's return on equity of 14.73% beat FirstCash's return on equity.
Klaviyo currently has a consensus price target of $36.88, indicating a potential upside of 56.18%. FirstCash has a consensus price target of $121.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.57%. Given FirstCash's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Klaviyo is more favorable than FirstCash.
FirstCash has higher revenue and earnings than Klaviyo.
Summary
FirstCash beats Klaviyo on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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