EBAY vs. BR, FLT, GPN, CSGP, FIS, Z, MSCI, ETSY, MELI, and TSCO
Should you be buying eBay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of eBay include Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), FLEETCOR Technologies (FLT), Global Payments (GPN), CoStar Group (CSGP), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Zillow Group (Z), MSCI (MSCI), Etsy (ETSY), MercadoLibre (MELI), and Tractor Supply (TSCO).
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Broadridge Financial Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $206.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.09%. eBay has a consensus target price of $49.21, suggesting a potential downside of 1.48%. Given eBay's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Broadridge Financial Solutions is more favorable than eBay.
eBay received 1382 more outperform votes than Broadridge Financial Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.91% of users gave eBay an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Broadridge Financial Solutions an outperform vote.
In the previous week, eBay had 22 more articles in the media than Broadridge Financial Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for eBay and 10 mentions for Broadridge Financial Solutions. eBay's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Broadridge Financial Solutions' score of 0.51 indicating that Broadridge Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
eBay has a net margin of 27.36% compared to eBay's net margin of 10.82%. eBay's return on equity of 41.12% beat Broadridge Financial Solutions' return on equity.
90.0% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of eBay shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Broadridge Financial Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. eBay pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Broadridge Financial Solutions pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. eBay pays out 20.7% 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. Broadridge Financial Solutions has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and eBay has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years. eBay is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
eBay has higher revenue and earnings than Broadridge Financial Solutions. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadridge Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Broadridge Financial Solutions beats eBay on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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