PSN vs. KD, AUR, WPP, PATH, ESTC, CLH, IPG, CNM, GFL, and DOCU
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Kyndryl (KD), Aurora Innovation (AUR), WPP (WPP), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), Clean Harbors (CLH), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Core & Main (CNM), GFL Environmental (GFL), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Parsons (NYSE:PSN) and Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Parsons received 97 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
Parsons currently has a consensus price target of $83.10, suggesting a potential upside of 7.34%. Kyndryl has a consensus price target of $28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.60%. Given Parsons' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Parsons is more favorable than Kyndryl.
98.0% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Kyndryl shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.0% of Parsons shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Parsons has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 11 more articles in the media than Parsons. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Kyndryl and 8 mentions for Parsons. Kyndryl's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Parsons' score of 0.23 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Parsons has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kyndryl. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Parsons has a net margin of 0.49% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -2.12%. Parsons' return on equity of 11.27% beat Kyndryl's return on equity.
Summary
Parsons beats Kyndryl on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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