RAMP vs. EVTC, STER, GB, TIXT, YEXT, PGRU, PAGS, MARA, LSPD, and HNI
Should you be buying LiveRamp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LiveRamp include EVERTEC (EVTC), Sterling Check (STER), Global Blue Group (GB), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Yext (YEXT), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Marathon Digital (MARA), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), and HNI (HNI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.
EVERTEC received 134 more outperform votes than LiveRamp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.20% of users gave LiveRamp an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
LiveRamp currently has a consensus target price of $47.75, suggesting a potential upside of 47.10%. EVERTEC has a consensus target price of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.95%. Given LiveRamp's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than EVERTEC.
EVERTEC has higher revenue and earnings than LiveRamp. LiveRamp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EVERTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to LiveRamp's net margin of -2.22%. EVERTEC's return on equity of 29.86% beat LiveRamp's return on equity.
93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of LiveRamp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LiveRamp has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LiveRamp and LiveRamp both had 4 articles in the media. LiveRamp's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat EVERTEC's score of 0.40 indicating that LiveRamp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
EVERTEC beats LiveRamp on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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