EVTC vs. LYFT, HQY, MARA, QMMM, FOUR, ETSY, AMTM, STNE, WPP, and FTDR
Should you be buying Evertec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Evertec include Lyft (LYFT), HealthEquity (HQY), Marathon Digital (MARA), QMMM (QMMM), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Etsy (ETSY), Amentum (AMTM), StoneCo (STNE), WPP (WPP), and Frontdoor (FTDR). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Evertec vs. Its Competitors
Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) and Evertec (NYSE:EVTC) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
83.1% of Lyft shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Evertec shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Lyft shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Evertec shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lyft has a beta of 2.4, indicating that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evertec has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Evertec has a net margin of 15.56% compared to Lyft's net margin of 1.51%. Evertec's return on equity of 36.67% beat Lyft's return on equity.
Evertec has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lyft. Evertec is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lyft, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lyft currently has a consensus target price of $19.12, indicating a potential downside of 5.41%. Evertec has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 27.27%. Given Evertec's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Evertec is more favorable than Lyft.
In the previous week, Lyft had 28 more articles in the media than Evertec. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Lyft and 2 mentions for Evertec. Evertec's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Lyft's score of 0.34 indicating that Evertec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Evertec beats Lyft on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:EVTC) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
