FIS vs. GPN, BR, FI, CPAY, GRAB, RBA, WCN, PAYX, SQ, and IT
Should you be buying Fidelity National Information Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity National Information Services include Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Fiserv (FI), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), Waste Connections (WCN), Paychex (PAYX), Block (SQ), and Gartner (IT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) 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, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking and risk.
Global Payments presently has a consensus price target of $151.92, suggesting a potential upside of 19.18%. Fidelity National Information Services has a consensus price target of $71.59, suggesting a potential upside of 1.10%. Given Fidelity National Information Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Global Payments is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
Global Payments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Payments has a net margin of 10.22% compared to Global Payments' net margin of -54.30%. Global Payments' return on equity of 13.06% beat Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Payments had 4 more articles in the media than Fidelity National Information Services. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Global Payments and 8 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services. Global Payments' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Fidelity National Information Services' score of 0.69 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Payments received 301 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.26% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 67.90% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% 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.
Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fidelity National Information Services pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Global Payments pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity National Information Services pays out -12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Fidelity National Information Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Global Payments beats Fidelity National Information Services on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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