RELX vs. PYPL, DASH, MSCI, CSGP, FICO, UBER, CDNS, ANET, SNPS, and CRWD
Should you be buying Relx stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Relx include PayPal (PYPL), DoorDash (DASH), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Fair Isaac (FICO), Uber Technologies (UBER), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Arista Networks (ANET), Synopsys (SNPS), and CrowdStrike (CRWD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Relx (NYSE:RELX) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.
Relx has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PayPal had 29 more articles in the media than Relx. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for PayPal and 6 mentions for Relx. Relx's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat PayPal's score of 0.74 indicating that Relx is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPal has a consensus target price of $70.47, indicating a potential upside of 13.48%. Given PayPal's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PayPal is more favorable than Relx.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Relx.
PayPal received 1391 more outperform votes than Relx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.58% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 56.70% of users gave Relx an outperform vote.
PayPal has a net margin of 14.26% compared to Relx's net margin of 0.00%. PayPal's return on equity of 20.84% beat Relx's return on equity.
15.0% of Relx shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Relx shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PayPal beats Relx on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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