MQ vs. DLO, PAY, FLYW, EVTC, PAGS, PATH, ESTC, CYBR, TWLO, and PCOR
Should you be buying Marqeta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marqeta include DLocal (DLO), Paymentus (PAY), Flywire (FLYW), EVERTEC (EVTC), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Twilio (TWLO), and Procore Technologies (PCOR).
Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and DLocal (NASDAQ:DLO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Marqeta currently has a consensus target price of $7.37, indicating a potential upside of 38.47%. DLocal has a consensus target price of $17.25, indicating a potential upside of 88.52%. Given DLocal's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DLocal is more favorable than Marqeta.
Marqeta has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DLocal has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DLocal had 6 more articles in the media than Marqeta. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for DLocal and 2 mentions for Marqeta. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat DLocal's score of 0.00 indicating that Marqeta is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DLocal has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Marqeta. Marqeta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DLocal, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.1% of DLocal shares are held by institutional investors. 12.1% of Marqeta shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 45.4% of DLocal shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marqeta received 42 more outperform votes than DLocal when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 52.10% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave DLocal an outperform vote.
DLocal has a net margin of 18.83% compared to Marqeta's net margin of -32.98%. DLocal's return on equity of 35.20% beat Marqeta's return on equity.
Summary
DLocal beats Marqeta on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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