FI vs. FIS, GPN, BR, ACN, WM, ARM, ADP, TRI, TT, and RSG
Should you be buying Fiserv stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fiserv include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Accenture (ACN), Waste Management (WM), ARM (ARM), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Trane Technologies (TT), and Republic Services (RSG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Fiserv (NYSE:FI) and Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Fiserv has a net margin of 16.07% compared to Fidelity National Information Services' net margin of -54.30%. Fiserv's return on equity of 15.16% beat Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity.
Fiserv has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fiserv currently has a consensus target price of $164.33, suggesting a potential upside of 7.94%. Fidelity National Information Services has a consensus target price of $71.59, suggesting a potential upside of 1.10%. Given Fiserv's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Fiserv is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
Fidelity National Information Services received 10 more outperform votes than Fiserv when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.90% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote while only 62.55% of users gave Fiserv an outperform vote.
91.0% of Fiserv shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fiserv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fidelity National Information Services 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.
Fiserv has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fiserv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fiserv had 65 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Information Services. MarketBeat recorded 74 mentions for Fiserv and 9 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services' average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Fiserv's score of 0.47 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fiserv beats Fidelity National Information Services on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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