MELI vs. FIS, MSCI, CSGP, GPN, EBAY, Z, UBER, PDD, BABA, and ORLY
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), Zillow Group (Z), Uber Technologies (UBER), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), and O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY).
Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
Fidelity National Information Services received 110 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
Fidelity National Information Services presently has a consensus target price of $71.59, suggesting a potential upside of 2.87%. MercadoLibre has a consensus target price of $1,790.36, suggesting a potential upside of 27.34%. Given Fidelity National Information Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
MercadoLibre has a net margin of 6.82% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of -54.30%. Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity of 39.07% beat MercadoLibre's return on equity.
In the previous week, MercadoLibre had 8 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Information Services. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for MercadoLibre and 9 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Fidelity National Information Services' score of 0.83 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MercadoLibre has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats Fidelity National Information Services on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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