WNS (WNS) Competitors

WNS (NYSE:WNS) and HealthEquity (NASDAQ:HQY) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.

Do analysts rate WNS or HQY?

WNS currently has a consensus price target of $62.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.60%. HealthEquity has a consensus price target of $118.09, suggesting a potential upside of 13.56%. Given HealthEquity's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe HealthEquity is more favorable than WNS.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WNS	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63
HealthEquity	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, WNS or HQY?

WNS has higher revenue and earnings than HealthEquity. WNS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HealthEquity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WNS	$1.31B	2.14	$140.15M	$3.72	16.31
HealthEquity	$1.24B	7.23	$55.71M	$1.37	75.91

Do insiders & institutionals believe in WNS or HQY?

97.4% of WNS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.6% of HealthEquity shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of WNS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of HealthEquity shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is WNS or HQY more profitable?

WNS has a net margin of 10.03% compared to HealthEquity's net margin of 8.41%. WNS's return on equity of 22.25% beat HealthEquity's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WNS	10.03%	22.25%	11.58%
HealthEquity	8.41%	9.70%	6.08%

Which has more risk & volatility, WNS or HQY?

WNS has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HealthEquity has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WNS or HQY?

HealthEquity received 13 more outperform votes than WNS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.65% of users gave WNS an outperform vote while only 70.40% of users gave HealthEquity an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
WNS	Outperform Votes 534 72.65%	Underperform Votes 201 27.35%
HealthEquity	Outperform Votes 547 70.40%	Underperform Votes 230 29.60%

Does the media prefer WNS or HQY?

In the previous week, HealthEquity had 19 more articles in the media than WNS. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for HealthEquity and 5 mentions for WNS. HealthEquity's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat WNS's score of 0.34 indicating that HealthEquity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
WNS	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
HealthEquity	8 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

HealthEquity beats WNS on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.