PAGS vs. STNE, STN, CART, BILI, HQY, FOUR, LIF, LYFT, AMTM, and WPP
Should you be buying PagSeguro Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagSeguro Digital include StoneCo (STNE), Stantec (STN), Maplebear (CART), Bilibili (BILI), HealthEquity (HQY), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Life360 (LIF), Lyft (LYFT), Amentum (AMTM), and WPP (WPP). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
PagSeguro Digital vs. Its Competitors
PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) and StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of StoneCo shares are held by institutional investors. 11.3% of StoneCo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PagSeguro Digital has higher revenue and earnings than StoneCo. StoneCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagSeguro Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PagSeguro Digital presently has a consensus target price of $12.17, suggesting a potential upside of 27.53%. StoneCo has a consensus target price of $16.56, suggesting a potential downside of 9.45%. Given PagSeguro Digital's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe PagSeguro Digital is more favorable than StoneCo.
In the previous week, StoneCo had 4 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for StoneCo and 7 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. PagSeguro Digital's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat StoneCo's score of 1.00 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneCo has a beta of 1.91, suggesting that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PagSeguro Digital has a net margin of 11.04% compared to StoneCo's net margin of -8.37%. StoneCo's return on equity of 18.71% beat PagSeguro Digital's return on equity.
Summary
StoneCo beats PagSeguro Digital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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This page (NYSE:PAGS) was last updated on 9/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
