EXPN vs. WPY, ITRK, FERG, BA, RR.L, AXON, HLMA, SPX, HSV, and BCA
Should you be buying Experian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Experian include Worldpay (WPY), Intertek Group (ITRK), Ferguson (FERG), BAE Systems (BA), Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (RR.L), Axon Enterprise (AXON), Halma (HLMA), Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX), HomeServe (HSV), and BCA Marketplace (BCA). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Experian vs.
Experian (LON:EXPN) and Worldpay (LON:WPY) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Experian has higher revenue and earnings than Worldpay. Worldpay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Experian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Experian received 651 more outperform votes than Worldpay when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.42% of users gave Experian an outperform vote while only 61.67% of users gave Worldpay an outperform vote.
57.8% of Experian shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Experian shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Experian's return on equity of 27.72% beat Worldpay's return on equity.
Experian currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,935.40, indicating a potential upside of 3.80%. Given Experian's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Experian is more favorable than Worldpay.
In the previous week, Experian had 7 more articles in the media than Worldpay. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Experian and 0 mentions for Worldpay. Experian's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat Worldpay's score of 0.00 indicating that Experian is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Experian beats Worldpay on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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