WEX vs. MMS, EXLS, WU, PAY, BR, GPN, CART, TNET, FOUR, and RBA
Should you be buying WEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WEX include Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Global Payments (GPN), Maplebear (CART), TriNet Group (TNET), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), and RB Global (RBA). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and WEX (NYSE:WEX) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Maximus presently has a consensus target price of $102.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.26%. WEX has a consensus target price of $240.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.62%. Given WEX's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Maximus is more favorable than WEX.
97.2% of Maximus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of WEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of WEX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
WEX has a net margin of 10.21% compared to WEX's net margin of 3.73%. Maximus' return on equity of 30.92% beat WEX's return on equity.
In the previous week, WEX had 9 more articles in the media than Maximus. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for WEX and 4 mentions for Maximus. WEX's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Maximus' score of 0.41 indicating that Maximus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WEX received 52 more outperform votes than Maximus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave WEX an outperform vote.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WEX has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
WEX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maximus. Maximus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
WEX beats Maximus on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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