WU vs. EXLS, MMS, PAY, WEX, DLO, CBZ, FOUR, CNXC, ENV, and FLYW
Should you be buying Western Union stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Union include ExlService (EXLS), Maximus (MMS), Paymentus (PAY), WEX (WEX), DLocal (DLO), CBIZ (CBZ), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Concentrix (CNXC), Envestnet (ENV), and Flywire (FLYW). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS) and Western Union (NYSE:WU) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.
92.9% of ExlService shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Western Union shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of ExlService shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Western Union shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
ExlService presently has a consensus target price of $36.14, indicating a potential upside of 22.60%. Western Union has a consensus target price of $13.45, indicating a potential downside of 0.96%. Given Western Union's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ExlService is more favorable than Western Union.
ExlService has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Union has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Western Union had 16 more articles in the media than ExlService. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Western Union and 9 mentions for ExlService. Western Union's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat ExlService's score of 0.48 indicating that ExlService is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Union has higher revenue and earnings than ExlService. Western Union is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ExlService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Union has a net margin of 14.12% compared to Western Union's net margin of 11.32%. ExlService's return on equity of 111.53% beat Western Union's return on equity.
Western Union received 55 more outperform votes than ExlService when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.15% of users gave ExlService an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Western Union an outperform vote.
Summary
ExlService beats Western Union on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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