PAGS vs. ICLR, RTO, CART, MEDP, HQY, BILI, WPP, LYFT, ETSY, and AMTM
Should you be buying PagSeguro Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagSeguro Digital include Icon (ICLR), Rentokil Initial (RTO), Maplebear (CART), Medpace (MEDP), HealthEquity (HQY), Bilibili (BILI), WPP (WPP), Lyft (LYFT), Etsy (ETSY), and Amentum (AMTM). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
PagSeguro Digital vs. Its Competitors
Icon (NASDAQ:ICLR) and PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
Icon currently has a consensus price target of $213.08, indicating a potential upside of 42.00%. PagSeguro Digital has a consensus price target of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 23.80%. Given Icon's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Icon is more favorable than PagSeguro Digital.
Icon has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Icon had 2 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Icon and 2 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. PagSeguro Digital's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Icon's score of 0.27 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Icon has higher revenue and earnings than PagSeguro Digital. PagSeguro Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Icon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.6% of Icon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 44.0% of Icon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PagSeguro Digital has a net margin of 11.15% compared to Icon's net margin of 9.25%. PagSeguro Digital's return on equity of 15.43% beat Icon's return on equity.
Summary
Icon beats PagSeguro Digital on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:PAGS) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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