PSFE vs. CNDT, VVI, RPAY, IMXI, ACCD, LQDT, ADV, RGP, MAX, and SHAP
Should you be buying Paysafe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paysafe include Conduent (CNDT), Viad (VVI), Repay (RPAY), International Money Express (IMXI), Accolade (ACCD), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Resources Connection (RGP), MediaAlpha (MAX), and Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Paysafe has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paysafe has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Paysafe had 10 more articles in the media than Conduent. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Paysafe and 5 mentions for Conduent. Conduent's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Paysafe's score of -0.01 indicating that Conduent is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paysafe currently has a consensus price target of $21.08, suggesting a potential upside of 10.17%. Conduent has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 125.56%. Given Conduent's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Conduent is more favorable than Paysafe.
Paysafe has a net margin of -1.26% compared to Conduent's net margin of -5.13%. Paysafe's return on equity of 15.85% beat Conduent's return on equity.
Paysafe received 17 more outperform votes than Conduent when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 43.84% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote while only 31.25% of users gave Conduent an outperform vote.
54.4% of Paysafe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.3% of Conduent shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Conduent shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Paysafe beats Conduent on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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