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FOUR vs. IQV, TOST, CPAY, GIB, AER, RBA, Z, GRAB, ZG, and GFL

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

Shift4 Payments vs. Its Competitors

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

89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of IQVIA 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

IQVIA has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Shift4 Payments' net margin of 6.11%. Shift4 Payments' return on equity of 37.05% beat IQVIA's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IQVIA7.88% 30.05% 6.77%
Shift4 Payments 6.11%37.05%6.88%

IQVIA has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.

IQVIA currently has a consensus target price of $228.62, indicating a potential upside of 22.83%. Shift4 Payments has a consensus target price of $114.40, indicating a potential upside of 31.62%. Given Shift4 Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shift4 Payments is more favorable than IQVIA.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.74
Shift4 Payments
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
3 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IQVIA$15.41B2.05$1.37B$6.9126.93
Shift4 Payments$3.33B2.31$229.60M$2.7032.19

In the previous week, Shift4 Payments had 5 more articles in the media than IQVIA. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for Shift4 Payments and 32 mentions for IQVIA. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Shift4 Payments' score of 0.37 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IQVIA
25 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Shift4 Payments
7 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
10 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Shift4 Payments beats IQVIA on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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FOUR vs. The Competition

MetricShift4 PaymentsFinancial Transaction Services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.70B$33.08B$22.25B$20.84B
Dividend YieldN/A2.45%2.84%3.65%
P/E Ratio32.1945.9328.3128.49
Price / Sales2.319.4442.1160.41
Price / Cash11.8918.3126.5217.60
Price / Book7.606.986.384.67
Net Income$229.60M$1.11B$199.64M$994.60M
7 Day Performance0.60%2.45%0.71%1.50%
1 Month Performance-13.95%-1.39%-2.19%0.49%
1 Year Performance19.13%26.54%40.91%18.07%

Shift4 Payments Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FOUR
Shift4 Payments
4.7037 of 5 stars
$86.92
+4.7%
$114.40
+31.6%
+16.3%$7.70B$3.33B32.194,000News Coverage
Earnings Report
Insider Trade
Gap Up
IQV
IQVIA
4.7318 of 5 stars
$182.97
+0.3%
$228.62
+24.9%
-24.1%$31.10B$15.70B26.4888,000News Coverage
Positive News
TOST
Toast
2.5251 of 5 stars
$49.40
+5.9%
$43.42
-12.1%
+83.1%$24.60B$5.22B214.785,700Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
CPAY
Corpay
3.9542 of 5 stars
$324.33
+2.5%
$401.07
+23.7%
+6.9%$22.86B$4.05B22.7411,200Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
GIB
CGI Group
3.6966 of 5 stars
$96.86
+1.4%
$148.25
+53.1%
-10.9%$21.59B$10.79B17.9090,250
AER
Aercap
2.9415 of 5 stars
$109.37
+0.9%
$122.00
+11.5%
+20.4%$20.43B$8.00B6.80740News Coverage
Positive News
RBA
RB Global
3.841 of 5 stars
$109.88
+1.5%
$116.21
+5.8%
+48.6%$20.38B$4.28B54.137,800Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up
Z
Zillow Group
2.332 of 5 stars
$83.65
+4.3%
$83.71
+0.1%
+52.9%$20.20B$2.24B-246.035,720News Coverage
Insider Trade
GRAB
Grab
2.409 of 5 stars
$4.96
+3.3%
$5.82
+17.3%
+48.8%$19.97B$2.80B124.0311,267
ZG
Zillow Group
4.2578 of 5 stars
$80.39
+4.2%
$82.45
+2.6%
+52.4%$19.41B$2.31B-236.446,856News Coverage
Earnings Report
Insider Trade
GFL
GFL Environmental
4.3143 of 5 stars
$50.51
+1.5%
$57.57
+14.0%
+28.9%$18.52B$8.08B7.9520,000

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This page (NYSE:FOUR) was last updated on 8/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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