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HQY vs. IQV, GIB, CPAY, RDDT, AER, GRAB, GFL, RBA, KSPI, and TOST

Should you be buying HealthEquity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HealthEquity include IQVIA (IQV), CGI (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Reddit (RDDT), AerCap (AER), Grab (GRAB), GFL Environmental (GFL), RB Global (RBA), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), and Toast (TOST). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

HealthEquity vs.

IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) and HealthEquity (NASDAQ:HQY) are both medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

IQVIA currently has a consensus target price of $237.62, suggesting a potential upside of 55.58%. HealthEquity has a consensus target price of $111.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.09%. Given IQVIA's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe IQVIA is more favorable than HealthEquity.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
HealthEquity
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

IQVIA received 143 more outperform votes than HealthEquity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.22% of users gave HealthEquity an outperform vote while only 68.16% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
IQVIAOutperform Votes
683
68.16%
Underperform Votes
319
31.84%
HealthEquityOutperform Votes
540
70.22%
Underperform Votes
229
29.78%

IQVIA has a net margin of 8.91% compared to HealthEquity's net margin of 8.41%. IQVIA's return on equity of 28.81% beat HealthEquity's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IQVIA8.91% 28.81% 7.02%
HealthEquity 8.41%9.70%6.08%

In the previous week, IQVIA had 13 more articles in the media than HealthEquity. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for IQVIA and 20 mentions for HealthEquity. HealthEquity's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat IQVIA's score of 0.71 indicating that HealthEquity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IQVIA
16 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
HealthEquity
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of HealthEquity shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of IQVIA shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of HealthEquity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than HealthEquity. IQVIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HealthEquity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IQVIA$15.41B1.75$1.37B$7.5020.36
HealthEquity$1.20B6.44$55.71M$1.0981.96

IQVIA has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HealthEquity has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

IQVIA beats HealthEquity on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HQY vs. The Competition

MetricHealthEquityBusiness services IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$7.74B$20.44B$5.54B$7.93B
Dividend YieldN/A2.66%5.09%4.23%
P/E Ratio82.1333.6722.5818.55
Price / Sales6.447.46401.13103.29
Price / Cash32.6732.3038.1834.62
Price / Book3.775.236.774.25
Net Income$55.71M$676.58M$3.22B$248.18M
7 Day Performance4.04%-0.59%1.10%0.91%
1 Month Performance0.67%1.57%2.49%2.59%
1 Year Performance12.02%19.81%15.76%4.02%

HealthEquity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HQY
HealthEquity
2.8206 of 5 stars
$92.33
+5.0%
$111.75
+21.0%
+10.3%$8.00B$1.20B84.843,720
IQV
IQVIA
4.9574 of 5 stars
$150.16
-0.1%
$237.62
+58.2%
-35.2%$26.48B$15.41B20.0286,000Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
GIB
CGI
3.8268 of 5 stars
$106.00
+0.5%
$156.75
+47.9%
+5.0%$24.03B$14.86B19.1790,000Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Revision
CPAY
Corpay
4.3033 of 5 stars
$316.82
-1.6%
$397.62
+25.5%
+8.8%$22.26B$3.97B22.6610,500Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
Gap Up
RDDT
Reddit
2.7288 of 5 stars
$121.16
+2.6%
$142.22
+17.4%
+158.1%$21.92B$1.30B-15.672,013Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
AER
AerCap
3.9527 of 5 stars
$103.82
+0.5%
$117.14
+12.8%
+23.7%$19.39B$8.00B8.23740Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
GRAB
Grab
2.9953 of 5 stars
$4.76
-0.4%
$5.60
+17.6%
+36.7%$19.17B$2.80B-238.009,490
GFL
GFL Environmental
2.516 of 5 stars
$48.47
-1.1%
$52.00
+7.3%
+56.3%$19.07B$7.86B-36.4419,500Earnings Report
News Coverage
RBA
RB Global
3.4887 of 5 stars
$98.85
-0.1%
$111.36
+12.7%
+40.2%$18.30B$4.28B49.184,200Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
KSPI
Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz
4.0958 of 5 stars
$89.26
-0.4%
$150.67
+68.8%
-22.8%$17.81B$2.52T8.628,772Short Interest ↑
TOST
Toast
3.0209 of 5 stars
$35.72
-1.1%
$40.26
+12.7%
+53.3%$17.65B$4.96B-3,568.434,500Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:HQY) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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