FLYW vs. PAY, WNS, FA, PAYO, QFIN, ENV, MAX, ADV, CBZ, and RPAY
Should you be buying Flywire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flywire include Paymentus (PAY), WNS (WNS), First Advantage (FA), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Envestnet (ENV), MediaAlpha (MAX), Advantage Solutions (ADV), CBIZ (CBZ), and Repay (RPAY). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) and Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Flywire currently has a consensus price target of $31.29, indicating a potential upside of 88.24%. Paymentus has a consensus price target of $19.06, indicating a potential upside of 1.67%. Given Flywire's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Flywire is more favorable than Paymentus.
Paymentus received 552 more outperform votes than Flywire when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.03% of users gave Flywire an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote.
Paymentus has higher revenue and earnings than Flywire. Flywire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flywire has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paymentus has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paymentus has a net margin of 4.43% compared to Flywire's net margin of -2.63%. Paymentus' return on equity of 8.74% beat Flywire's return on equity.
95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Paymentus shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Flywire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 87.8% of Paymentus shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Flywire had 14 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Flywire and 1 mentions for Paymentus. Flywire's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Paymentus' score of 0.00 indicating that Flywire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Paymentus beats Flywire on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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