AFRM vs. MQ, SYF, SPLK, ZG, CDAY, DAY, OTEX, LSCC, TOST, and DOX
Should you be buying Affirm stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Affirm include Marqeta (MQ), Synchrony Financial (SYF), Splunk (SPLK), Zillow Group (ZG), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), Dayforce (DAY), Open Text (OTEX), Lattice Semiconductor (LSCC), Toast (TOST), and Amdocs (DOX).
Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
Marqeta has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Affirm. Marqeta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Affirm, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Affirm had 2 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Affirm and 6 mentions for Marqeta. Affirm's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Marqeta's score of 0.18 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Marqeta has a net margin of -32.97% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -39.19%. Affirm's return on equity of -13.80% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
Affirm received 9 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.88% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote while only 33.84% of users gave Affirm an outperform vote.
Marqeta has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Affirm has a beta of 3.57, indicating that its stock price is 257% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marqeta presently has a consensus target price of $7.57, suggesting a potential upside of 37.41%. Affirm has a consensus target price of $27.86, suggesting a potential downside of 13.15%. Given Affirm's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Marqeta is more favorable than Affirm.
78.6% of Marqeta shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Affirm shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Marqeta shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Affirm shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
Marqeta beats Affirm on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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