PAYO vs. LYFT, HQY, FIGR, LIF, FOUR, QMMM, ETSY, MARA, APLD, and AMTM
Should you be buying Payoneer Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Payoneer Global include Lyft (LYFT), HealthEquity (HQY), Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), Life360 (LIF), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), QMMM (QMMM), Etsy (ETSY), Marathon Digital (MARA), Applied Digital (APLD), and Amentum (AMTM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Payoneer Global vs. Its Competitors
Payoneer Global (NASDAQ:PAYO) and Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Payoneer Global has a net margin of 9.81% compared to Lyft's net margin of 1.51%. Lyft's return on equity of 14.32% beat Payoneer Global's return on equity.
Payoneer Global has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lyft has a beta of 2.4, meaning that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500.
82.2% of Payoneer Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.1% of Lyft shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Payoneer Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Lyft shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Lyft had 15 more articles in the media than Payoneer Global. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Lyft and 8 mentions for Payoneer Global. Lyft's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Payoneer Global's score of 0.39 indicating that Lyft is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Payoneer Global presently has a consensus target price of $10.06, indicating a potential upside of 66.74%. Lyft has a consensus target price of $19.02, indicating a potential downside of 7.17%. Given Payoneer Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Payoneer Global is more favorable than Lyft.
Payoneer Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lyft. Payoneer Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lyft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Lyft beats Payoneer Global on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:PAYO) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
