RELX vs. PYPL, DASH, FICO, UBER, CDNS, ANET, SNPS, APH, CRWD, and INFY
Should you be buying Relx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Relx include PayPal (PYPL), DoorDash (DASH), Fair Isaac (FICO), Uber Technologies (UBER), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Arista Networks (ANET), Synopsys (SNPS), Amphenol (APH), CrowdStrike (CRWD), and Infosys (INFY). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Relx (NYSE:RELX) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Relx.
PayPal presently has a consensus target price of $72.73, indicating a potential upside of 10.70%. Given Relx's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PayPal is more favorable than Relx.
PayPal has a net margin of 14.26% compared to PayPal's net margin of 0.00%. Relx's return on equity of 21.58% beat PayPal's return on equity.
PayPal received 1395 more outperform votes than Relx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.33% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 56.62% of users gave Relx an outperform vote.
68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.0% of Relx shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Relx shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PayPal had 102 more articles in the media than Relx. MarketBeat recorded 108 mentions for PayPal and 6 mentions for Relx. Relx's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat PayPal's score of 0.48 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPal has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Relx has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PayPal beats Relx on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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