PAYS vs. NOTE, PRTH, SCOR, PALT, SWVL, SHAP, RMNI, SEZL, EEX, and RGP
Should you be buying PaySign stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PaySign include FiscalNote (NOTE), Priority Technology (PRTH), comScore (SCOR), Paltalk (PALT), Swvl (SWVL), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Rimini Street (RMNI), Sezzle (SEZL), Emerald (EEX), and Resources Connection (RGP). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
FiscalNote (NYSE:NOTE) and PaySign (NASDAQ:PAYS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
PaySign has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FiscalNote. FiscalNote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PaySign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FiscalNote had 17 more articles in the media than PaySign. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for FiscalNote and 16 mentions for PaySign. FiscalNote's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat PaySign's score of 0.10 indicating that PaySign is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PaySign received 20 more outperform votes than FiscalNote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave FiscalNote an outperform vote while only 52.02% of users gave PaySign an outperform vote.
42.8% of FiscalNote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of PaySign shares are held by institutional investors. 50.8% of FiscalNote shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of PaySign shares are held 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.
PaySign has a net margin of 3.51% compared to PaySign's net margin of -101.78%. FiscalNote's return on equity of 9.25% beat PaySign's return on equity.
FiscalNote currently has a consensus price target of $6.25, suggesting a potential upside of 251.12%. PaySign has a consensus price target of $4.67, suggesting a potential upside of 48.15%. Given PaySign's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe FiscalNote is more favorable than PaySign.
FiscalNote has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PaySign has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PaySign beats FiscalNote on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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