FIS vs. GPN, BR, FI, CPAY, GRAB, RBA, WCN, PAYX, SQ, and IT
Should you be buying Fidelity National Information Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity National Information Services include Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Fiserv (FI), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), Waste Connections (WCN), Paychex (PAYX), Block (SQ), and Gartner (IT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) and Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Fidelity National Information Services pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fidelity National Information Services pays out -12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Payments pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fidelity National Information Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Fidelity National Information Services had 2 more articles in the media than Global Payments. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services and 13 mentions for Global Payments. Fidelity National Information Services' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Global Payments' score of 0.61 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Global Payments received 301 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.26% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 67.83% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote.
Fidelity National Information Services presently has a consensus price target of $72.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.79%. Global Payments has a consensus price target of $151.92, indicating a potential upside of 23.75%. Given Global Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Global Payments is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Global Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Global Payments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Payments has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Payments has a net margin of 10.22% compared to Fidelity National Information Services' net margin of -54.30%. Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity of 13.06% beat Global Payments' return on equity.
Global Payments has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Global Payments beats Fidelity National Information Services on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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