EBAY vs. GPN, BR, FLT, FIS, EQIX, SE, CSGP, VRSN, AKAM, and SPSC
Should you be buying eBay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eBay include Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Equinix (EQIX), SEA (SE), CoStar Group (CSGP), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), and SPS Commerce (SPSC).
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Global Payments presently has a consensus price target of $145.32, indicating a potential upside of 43.61%. eBay has a consensus price target of $53.84, indicating a potential downside of 0.18%. Given eBay's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Global Payments is more favorable than eBay.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of eBay shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
eBay has a net margin of 25.97% compared to eBay's net margin of 13.40%. Global Payments' return on equity of 29.11% beat eBay's return on equity.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. eBay pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Global Payments pays out 19.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. eBay pays out 21.5% 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.
eBay has higher revenue and earnings than Global Payments. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, eBay had 18 more articles in the media than Global Payments. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for eBay and 7 mentions for Global Payments. eBay's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Global Payments' score of 0.05 indicating that Global Payments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
eBay received 712 more outperform votes than Global Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.26% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 65.87% of users gave eBay an outperform vote.
Summary
Global Payments and eBay tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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