PAGS vs. MARA, EVTC, RAMP, STER, CBZ, BCO, EXPO, CNXC, DNB, and NSP
Should you be buying PagSeguro Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagSeguro Digital include Marathon Digital (MARA), EVERTEC (EVTC), LiveRamp (RAMP), Sterling Check (STER), CBIZ (CBZ), Brink's (BCO), Exponent (EXPO), Concentrix (CNXC), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), and Insperity (NSP). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) and PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) 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 dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.36, meaning that its share price is 436% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Digital currently has a consensus target price of $21.11, suggesting a potential upside of 8.67%. PagSeguro Digital has a consensus target price of $15.09, suggesting a potential upside of 19.00%. Given Marathon Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PagSeguro Digital is more favorable than Marathon Digital.
PagSeguro Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Digital. PagSeguro Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marathon Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 21 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Marathon Digital and 5 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. Marathon Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat PagSeguro Digital's score of 0.28 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PagSeguro Digital received 78 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.68% of users gave PagSeguro Digital an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 48.93% compared to Marathon Digital's net margin of 10.37%. Marathon Digital's return on equity of 13.94% beat PagSeguro Digital's return on equity.
44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are owned 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.
Summary
PagSeguro Digital beats Marathon Digital on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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