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$86.76 +0.46 (+0.53%)
Closing price 09/19/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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FOUR vs. GRAB, AER, RBA, CPAY, Z, GIB, TOST, ZG, FTAI, and TRU

Should you be buying Shift4 Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shift4 Payments include Grab (GRAB), Aercap (AER), RB Global (RBA), Corpay (CPAY), Zillow Group (Z), CGI Group (GIB), Toast (TOST), Zillow Group (ZG), FTAI Aviation (FTAI), and TransUnion (TRU). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

Shift4 Payments vs. Its Competitors

Grab (NASDAQ:GRAB) and Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and earnings.

Grab currently has a consensus target price of $5.90, suggesting a potential downside of 7.67%. Shift4 Payments has a consensus target price of $115.21, suggesting a potential upside of 32.79%. Given Shift4 Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Shift4 Payments is more favorable than Grab.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Grab
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.64
Shift4 Payments
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86

Shift4 Payments has higher revenue and earnings than Grab. Shift4 Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Grab, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Grab$2.80B9.20-$105M$0.04159.75
Shift4 Payments$3.33B2.30$229.60M$2.7032.13

55.5% of Grab shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Grab shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.2% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Grab has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.72, meaning that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Shift4 Payments has a net margin of 6.11% compared to Grab's net margin of 3.65%. Shift4 Payments' return on equity of 37.05% beat Grab's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Grab3.65% 1.75% 1.14%
Shift4 Payments 6.11%37.05%6.88%

In the previous week, Grab had 22 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Grab and 6 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Shift4 Payments' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Grab's score of 0.10 indicating that Shift4 Payments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Grab
8 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Shift4 Payments
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Shift4 Payments beats Grab on 14 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

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FOUR vs. The Competition

MetricShift4 PaymentsFinancial Transaction Services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.68B$34.17B$26.72B$21.63B
Dividend YieldN/A2.24%2.75%3.50%
P/E Ratio32.1339.8327.1329.94
Price / Sales2.3020.13774.1560.69
Price / Cash12.6518.0227.3218.30
Price / Book7.597.357.784.64
Net Income$229.60M$1.14B$199.86M$1.00B
7 Day Performance-0.87%4.50%1.74%0.81%
1 Month Performance-2.30%14.49%22.64%5.30%
1 Year Performance-0.16%35.35%66.54%14.58%

Shift4 Payments Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FOUR
Shift4 Payments
4.6189 of 5 stars
$86.76
+0.5%
$115.21
+32.8%
-0.2%$7.68B$3.33B32.134,000
GRAB
Grab
1.9341 of 5 stars
$6.14
+2.3%
$5.82
-5.3%
+75.5%$24.73B$3.07B153.5411,267Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
AER
Aercap
2.2988 of 5 stars
$120.13
-1.7%
$122.57
+2.0%
+23.8%$22.44B$8.00B7.47740Short Interest ↑
RBA
RB Global
4.185 of 5 stars
$116.75
-0.3%
$124.33
+6.5%
+40.9%$21.67B$4.28B57.807,800News Coverage
Positive News
CPAY
Corpay
4.3687 of 5 stars
$305.62
-0.6%
$399.43
+30.7%
-1.8%$21.58B$3.97B20.7611,200News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Z
Zillow Group
2.4678 of 5 stars
$87.12
-0.8%
$88.29
+1.3%
+29.3%$21.11B$2.24B-335.085,720Analyst Upgrade
GIB
CGI Group
4.0663 of 5 stars
$93.14
-0.2%
$148.25
+59.2%
-17.9%$20.76B$15.56B17.2290,250Positive News
TOST
Toast
3.8282 of 5 stars
$40.24
+0.7%
$45.54
+13.2%
+48.4%$20.52B$4.96B118.355,700Positive News
ZG
Zillow Group
3.9201 of 5 stars
$83.70
-0.8%
$85.52
+2.2%
+28.7%$20.28B$2.24B-321.926,856Analyst Upgrade
FTAI
FTAI Aviation
3.6994 of 5 stars
$172.51
+0.5%
$182.83
+6.0%
+37.2%$17.69B$2.14B42.7040Positive News
TRU
TransUnion
4.8675 of 5 stars
$89.37
-2.6%
$112.64
+26.0%
-14.5%$17.41B$4.36B44.6913,400Positive News

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