CART vs. WEX, TNET, FOUR, MMS, EXLS, RBA, GRAB, WU, NVEI, and DLO
Should you be buying Maplebear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maplebear include WEX (WEX), TriNet Group (TNET), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), RB Global (RBA), Grab (GRAB), Western Union (WU), Nuvei (NVEI), and DLocal (DLO). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
WEX (NYSE:WEX) and Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
WEX has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Maplebear.
WEX received 473 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.71% of users gave WEX an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
WEX presently has a consensus price target of $240.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.58%. Maplebear has a consensus price target of $38.79, indicating a potential upside of 5.69%. Given Maplebear's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe WEX is more favorable than Maplebear.
97.5% of WEX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.1% of Maplebear shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of WEX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Maplebear shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
WEX has a net margin of 10.21% compared to WEX's net margin of 0.00%. Maplebear's return on equity of 30.92% beat WEX's return on equity.
In the previous week, Maplebear had 3 more articles in the media than WEX. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Maplebear and 14 mentions for WEX. WEX's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Maplebear's score of 0.23 indicating that Maplebear is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
WEX beats Maplebear on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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