PAY vs. TC, MDF, HAI, CPLF, CVO, SYZ, QTRH, ESP, ALYA, and VCM
Should you be buying Payfare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Payfare include Tucows (TC), mdf commerce (MDF), Haivision Systems (HAI), Copperleaf Technologies (CPLF), Coveo Solutions (CVO), Sylogist (SYZ), Quarterhill (QTRH), Brompton Energy Split (ESP), Alithya Group (ALYA), and Vecima Networks (VCM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Tucows (TSE:TC) and Payfare (TSE:PAY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
79.4% of Tucows shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Payfare shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.8% of Tucows shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Payfare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Tucows has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Payfare has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Payfare received 5 more outperform votes than Tucows when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.60% of users gave Payfare an outperform vote while only 61.60% of users gave Tucows an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Tucows and Tucows both had 1 articles in the media. Payfare's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Tucows' score of 0.34 indicating that Tucows is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Payfare has a net margin of 6.37% compared to Payfare's net margin of -28.35%. Tucows' return on equity of 19.58% beat Payfare's return on equity.
Payfare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tucows. Tucows is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Payfare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Payfare has a consensus price target of C$9.50, suggesting a potential upside of 57.81%. Given Tucows' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Payfare is more favorable than Tucows.
Summary
Payfare beats Tucows on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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