FCFS vs. SPSC, VNT, SPXC, FOUR, TNET, RCM, MMS, EXLS, SOFI, and DLO
Should you be buying FirstCash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstCash include SPS Commerce (SPSC), Vontier (VNT), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), TriNet Group (TNET), R1 RCM (RCM), Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), SoFi Technologies (SOFI), and DLocal (DLO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
SPS Commerce (NASDAQ:SPSC) and FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, community ranking and risk.
FirstCash has higher revenue and earnings than SPS Commerce. FirstCash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SPS Commerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, SPS Commerce and SPS Commerce both had 4 articles in the media. FirstCash's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat SPS Commerce's score of 1.04 indicating that SPS Commerce is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SPS Commerce has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstCash has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SPS Commerce has a net margin of 12.26% compared to SPS Commerce's net margin of 6.96%. SPS Commerce's return on equity of 14.42% beat FirstCash's return on equity.
99.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of FirstCash shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of SPS Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of FirstCash shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SPS Commerce received 610 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.88% of users gave SPS Commerce an outperform vote while only 37.50% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.
SPS Commerce currently has a consensus target price of $199.67, indicating a potential upside of 17.04%. FirstCash has a consensus target price of $121.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.68%. Given FirstCash's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe SPS Commerce is more favorable than FirstCash.
Summary
SPS Commerce beats FirstCash on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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