MMS vs. EXLS, WU, PAY, WEX, FOUR, DLO, CBZ, CNXC, ENV, and TNET
Should you be buying Maximus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maximus include ExlService (EXLS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), WEX (WEX), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), DLocal (DLO), CBIZ (CBZ), Concentrix (CNXC), Envestnet (ENV), and TriNet Group (TNET). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
Maximus currently has a consensus target price of $102.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.82%. ExlService has a consensus target price of $36.14, indicating a potential upside of 23.10%. Given Maximus' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Maximus is more favorable than ExlService.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ExlService has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ExlService has a net margin of 11.32% compared to Maximus' net margin of 3.73%. ExlService's return on equity of 22.83% beat Maximus' return on equity.
ExlService has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maximus. Maximus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ExlService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.2% of Maximus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of ExlService shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of ExlService shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ExlService received 99 more outperform votes than Maximus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave ExlService an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Maximus had 3 more articles in the media than ExlService. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Maximus and 9 mentions for ExlService. Maximus' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat ExlService's score of 0.42 indicating that Maximus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ExlService beats Maximus on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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