PAY vs. WPS, FNX, SEE, BOKU, IOM, BKS, BGO, SPT, BYIT, and FDM
Should you be buying PayPoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPoint include W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Seeing Machines (SEE), Boku (BOKU), iomart Group (IOM), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Bango (BGO), Spirent Communications (SPT), Bytes Technology Group (BYIT), and FDM Group (FDM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
PayPoint (LON:PAY) and W.A.G payment solutions (LON:WPS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
PayPoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPoint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PayPoint presently has a consensus target price of GBX 675, suggesting a potential upside of 28.33%. Given PayPoint's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PayPoint is more favorable than W.A.G payment solutions.
PayPoint has a net margin of 14.27% compared to W.A.G payment solutions' net margin of -2.19%. PayPoint's return on equity of 30.59% beat W.A.G payment solutions' return on equity.
61.6% of PayPoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.9% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 32.1% of PayPoint shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.8% of W.A.G payment solutions 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 8 more articles in the media than W.A.G payment solutions. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for PayPoint and 0 mentions for W.A.G payment solutions. PayPoint's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat W.A.G payment solutions' score of 0.00 indicating that PayPoint is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPoint received 345 more outperform votes than W.A.G payment solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave W.A.G payment solutions an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave PayPoint an outperform vote.
PayPoint has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, W.A.G payment solutions has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PayPoint beats W.A.G payment solutions on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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