PSN vs. KD, AUR, COHR, CART, CFLT, STN, FCN, RHI, NOV, and SOFI
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Kyndryl (KD), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Coherent (COHR), Maplebear (CART), Confluent (CFLT), Stantec (STN), FTI Consulting (FCN), Robert Half (RHI), NOV (NOV), and SoFi Technologies (SOFI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.
Kyndryl currently has a consensus price target of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.51%. Parsons has a consensus price target of $79.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.13%. Given Parsons' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Kyndryl is more favorable than Parsons.
Parsons has a net margin of 2.96% compared to Parsons' net margin of -6.27%. Kyndryl's return on equity of 10.32% beat Parsons' return on equity.
71.5% of Kyndryl shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Parsons shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 56.0% of Parsons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Parsons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kyndryl. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Parsons had 15 more articles in the media than Kyndryl. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Parsons and 4 mentions for Kyndryl. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat Kyndryl's score of 0.36 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Kyndryl has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Parsons received 96 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.42% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
Summary
Parsons beats Kyndryl on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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