PYPL vs. FIS, CSGP, EBAY, GPN, BABA, UBER, MELI, RELX, WCN, and IQV
Should you be buying PayPal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPal include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), CoStar Group (CSGP), eBay (EBAY), Global Payments (GPN), Alibaba Group (BABA), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), Waste Connections (WCN), and IQVIA (IQV).
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
PayPal currently has a consensus price target of $73.10, suggesting a potential upside of 26.79%. Fidelity National Information Services has a consensus price target of $79.42, suggesting a potential upside of 4.32%. Given PayPal's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PayPal is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
PayPal received 1024 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.27% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 67.91% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote.
PayPal has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal has a net margin of 14.26% compared to Fidelity National Information Services' net margin of -54.14%. PayPal's return on equity of 21.58% beat Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, PayPal had 16 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Information Services. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for PayPal and 14 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat PayPal's score of 0.48 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Fidelity National Information Services 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.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PayPal beats Fidelity National Information Services on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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