PAY vs. FOUR, HRI, RSG, OCN, LOOK, CSN, MAST, TRMR, HUR, and ACRL
Should you be buying PayPoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPoint include 4imprint Group (FOUR), Herald (HRI), Resolute Mining (RSG), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), Lookers (LOOK), Chesnara (CSN), MAST Energy Developments (MAST), Tremor International (TRMR), Hurricane Energy (HUR), and Accrol Group (ACRL). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
PayPoint vs. Its Competitors
PayPoint (LON:PAY) and 4imprint Group (LON:FOUR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
4imprint Group has higher revenue and earnings than PayPoint. 4imprint Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPoint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
37.4% of PayPoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.3% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.4% of PayPoint shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of 4imprint Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
4imprint Group has a consensus target price of GBX 7,365, indicating a potential upside of 98.79%. Given 4imprint Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe 4imprint Group is more favorable than PayPoint.
PayPoint pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. 4imprint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 180 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. PayPoint pays out 39.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 4imprint Group pays out 57.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, PayPoint had 8 more articles in the media than 4imprint Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for PayPoint and 0 mentions for 4imprint Group. PayPoint's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat 4imprint Group's score of 0.00 indicating that PayPoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPoint has a net margin of 11.65% compared to 4imprint Group's net margin of 8.20%. 4imprint Group's return on equity of 78.95% beat PayPoint's return on equity.
PayPoint has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 4imprint Group has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
4imprint Group beats PayPoint on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:PAY) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
