FOUR vs. MMS, EXLS, TNET, WU, NVEI, DLO, CNXC, CBZ, ENV, and FLYW
Should you be buying Shift4 Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shift4 Payments include Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), TriNet Group (TNET), Western Union (WU), Nuvei (NVEI), DLocal (DLO), Concentrix (CNXC), CBIZ (CBZ), Envestnet (ENV), and Flywire (FLYW). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Maximus has a net margin of 3.73% compared to Maximus' net margin of 3.36%. Maximus' return on equity of 27.35% beat Shift4 Payments' return on equity.
Maximus received 376 more outperform votes than Shift4 Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 54.84% of users gave Shift4 Payments an outperform vote.
Maximus currently has a consensus target price of $102.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.46%. Shift4 Payments has a consensus target price of $84.95, suggesting a potential upside of 41.96%. Given Maximus' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shift4 Payments is more favorable than Maximus.
Maximus has higher revenue and earnings than Shift4 Payments. Maximus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shift4 Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Maximus had 6 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Maximus and 6 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Maximus' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Shift4 Payments' score of 0.61 indicating that Shift4 Payments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
97.2% of Maximus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Shift4 Payments beats Maximus on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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