SPGI vs. ADP, ARM, FI, WM, TRI, TT, SPOT, RSG, MRVL, and CPRT
Should you be buying S&P Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&P Global include Automatic Data Processing (ADP), ARM (ARM), Fiserv (FI), Waste Management (WM), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Trane Technologies (TT), Spotify Technology (SPOT), Republic Services (RSG), Marvell Technology (MRVL), and Copart (CPRT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) and Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
87.2% of S&P Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of S&P Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Automatic Data Processing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Automatic Data Processing has higher revenue and earnings than S&P Global. Automatic Data Processing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&P Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&P Global has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Automatic Data Processing has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&P Global has a net margin of 22.01% compared to Automatic Data Processing's net margin of 19.14%. Automatic Data Processing's return on equity of 95.22% beat S&P Global's return on equity.
S&P Global currently has a consensus target price of $462.60, suggesting a potential upside of 11.27%. Automatic Data Processing has a consensus target price of $258.36, suggesting a potential upside of 6.29%. Given S&P Global's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe S&P Global is more favorable than Automatic Data Processing.
Automatic Data Processing received 166 more outperform votes than S&P Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.39% of users gave S&P Global an outperform vote while only 58.88% of users gave Automatic Data Processing an outperform vote.
In the previous week, S&P Global had 30 more articles in the media than Automatic Data Processing. MarketBeat recorded 43 mentions for S&P Global and 13 mentions for Automatic Data Processing. Automatic Data Processing's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat S&P Global's score of 0.79 indicating that Automatic Data Processing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
S&P Global pays an annual dividend of $3.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Automatic Data Processing pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. S&P Global pays out 40.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Automatic Data Processing pays out 65.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
S&P Global beats Automatic Data Processing on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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