MA vs. V, ADP, FI, PAYX, FIS, BR, GPN, JKHY, G, and EXLS
Should you be buying Mastercard stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mastercard include Visa (V), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FI), Paychex (PAYX), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Global Payments (GPN), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Genpact (G), and ExlService (EXLS). These companies are all part of the "data processing & outsourced services" industry.
Mastercard vs.
Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, valuation and earnings.
Visa pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $3.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Visa pays out 23.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mastercard pays out 21.3% 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. Visa has increased its dividend for 17 consecutive years and Mastercard has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Visa is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Visa has higher revenue and earnings than Mastercard. Visa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mastercard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Visa had 39 more articles in the media than Mastercard. MarketBeat recorded 129 mentions for Visa and 90 mentions for Mastercard. Visa's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Mastercard's score of 1.35 indicating that Visa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Visa received 838 more outperform votes than Mastercard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.37% of users gave Visa an outperform vote while only 73.15% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote.
Visa has a net margin of 54.27% compared to Mastercard's net margin of 45.71%. Mastercard's return on equity of 188.47% beat Visa's return on equity.
Visa has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mastercard has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Visa currently has a consensus price target of $366.13, suggesting a potential upside of 0.99%. Mastercard has a consensus price target of $608.57, suggesting a potential upside of 5.41%. Given Mastercard's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mastercard is more favorable than Visa.
82.2% of Visa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Mastercard shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Visa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Mastercard shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Mastercard beats Visa on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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