PAY vs. HRI, FOUR, RSG, LOOK, OCN, CSN, MAST, TRMR, HUR, and ACRL
Should you be buying PayPoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPoint include Herald (HRI), 4imprint Group (FOUR), Resolute Mining (RSG), Lookers (LOOK), Ocean Wilsons (OCN), 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 Herald (LON:HRI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Herald has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PayPoint. Herald is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPoint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Herald has a net margin of 107.72% compared to PayPoint's net margin of 11.65%. PayPoint's return on equity of 30.78% beat Herald's return on equity.
PayPoint has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.4% of PayPoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Herald shares are held by institutional investors. 31.4% of PayPoint shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Herald shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, PayPoint had 12 more articles in the media than Herald. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for PayPoint and 0 mentions for Herald. PayPoint's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Herald's score of 0.00 indicating that PayPoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
PayPoint beats Herald on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:PAY) was last updated on 8/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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