FOUR vs. EBAY, CSGP, BR, CPAY, GPN, GRAB, RBA, Z, ZG, and KSPI
Should you be buying Shift4 Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shift4 Payments include eBay (EBAY), CoStar Group (CSGP), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Corpay (CPAY), Global Payments (GPN), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), and Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Shift4 Payments vs.
Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Shift4 Payments currently has a consensus target price of $114.25, indicating a potential upside of 26.45%. eBay has a consensus target price of $67.42, indicating a potential downside of 7.12%. Given Shift4 Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Shift4 Payments is more favorable than eBay.
eBay received 1700 more outperform votes than Shift4 Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.93% of users gave eBay an outperform vote while only 63.10% of users gave Shift4 Payments an outperform vote.
In the previous week, eBay had 22 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for eBay and 7 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Shift4 Payments' average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat eBay's score of 0.92 indicating that Shift4 Payments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
eBay has a net margin of 19.68% compared to Shift4 Payments' net margin of 6.89%. eBay's return on equity of 30.97% beat Shift4 Payments' return on equity.
98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of Shift4 Payments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of eBay shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
eBay has higher revenue and earnings than Shift4 Payments. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shift4 Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
eBay beats Shift4 Payments on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FOUR) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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