DLO vs. PAY, EVTC, FLYW, MQ, PAGS, CART, ETSY, HQY, WEX, and FOUR
Should you be buying DLocal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DLocal include Paymentus (PAY), EVERTEC (EVTC), Flywire (FLYW), Marqeta (MQ), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Maplebear (CART), Etsy (ETSY), HealthEquity (HQY), WEX (WEX), and Shift4 Payments (FOUR).
DLocal (NASDAQ:DLO) and Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
90.1% of DLocal shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Paymentus shares are held by institutional investors. 45.4% of DLocal shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 87.8% of Paymentus shares are held 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.
DLocal currently has a consensus price target of $16.44, indicating a potential upside of 116.28%. Paymentus has a consensus price target of $19.06, indicating a potential downside of 0.66%. Given DLocal's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DLocal is more favorable than Paymentus.
In the previous week, DLocal had 11 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for DLocal and 2 mentions for Paymentus. Paymentus' average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat DLocal's score of 0.55 indicating that Paymentus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DLocal has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Paymentus. DLocal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DLocal has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paymentus has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DLocal has a net margin of 18.83% compared to Paymentus' net margin of 4.43%. DLocal's return on equity of 35.20% beat Paymentus' return on equity.
Paymentus received 608 more outperform votes than DLocal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote while only 32.79% of users gave DLocal an outperform vote.
Summary
DLocal beats Paymentus on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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