PAGS vs. MARA, EVTC, RAMP, STER, CRVL, BRZE, DLO, CNXC, BCO, and SRCL
Should you be buying PagSeguro Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagSeguro Digital include Marathon Digital (MARA), EVERTEC (EVTC), LiveRamp (RAMP), Sterling Check (STER), CorVel (CRVL), Braze (BRZE), DLocal (DLO), Concentrix (CNXC), Brink's (BCO), and Stericycle (SRCL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) and Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PagSeguro Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Digital. Marathon Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagSeguro Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PagSeguro Digital currently has a consensus price target of $15.20, indicating a potential upside of 19.97%. Marathon Digital has a consensus price target of $19.69, indicating a potential upside of 11.85%. Given PagSeguro Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PagSeguro Digital is more favorable than Marathon Digital.
PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.38, suggesting that its share price is 438% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 36 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Marathon Digital and 3 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. PagSeguro Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Marathon Digital's score of 0.28 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 106.46% compared to PagSeguro Digital's net margin of 10.37%. PagSeguro Digital's return on equity of 13.94% beat Marathon Digital's return on equity.
PagSeguro Digital received 78 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave PagSeguro Digital an outperform vote while only 53.79% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
Summary
PagSeguro Digital beats Marathon Digital on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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