PSN vs. KD, AUR, TDCX, MDRX, EXPO, MMS, CNXC, VNT, DNB, and AFRM
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Kyndryl (KD), Aurora Innovation (AUR), TDCX (TDCX), Veradigm (MDRX), Exponent (EXPO), Maximus (MMS), Concentrix (CNXC), Vontier (VNT), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), and Affirm (AFRM). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Parsons vs.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Kyndryl currently has a consensus price target of $16.67, indicating a potential upside of 34.08%. Parsons has a consensus price target of $49.78, indicating a potential upside of 6.32%. Given Kyndryl's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Kyndryl is more favorable than Parsons.
Parsons has a net margin of 2.30% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -8.07%. Parsons' return on equity of 8.38% beat Kyndryl's return on equity.
Parsons received 84 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.42% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 25.00% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
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.
Kyndryl has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Parsons had 7 more articles in the media than Kyndryl. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Parsons and 5 mentions for Kyndryl. Kyndryl's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Parsons' score of 0.80 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the media.
63.0% of Kyndryl shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Kyndryl shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Parsons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Parsons beats Kyndryl on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PSN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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