EEX vs. NVEI, ALIT, WU, CNXC, CBZ, ENV, ACVA, DLO, WNS, and FA
Should you be buying Emerald stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Emerald include Nuvei (NVEI), Alight (ALIT), Western Union (WU), Concentrix (CNXC), CBIZ (CBZ), Envestnet (ENV), ACV Auctions (ACVA), DLocal (DLO), WNS (WNS), and First Advantage (FA). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Emerald (NYSE:EEX) and Nuvei (NASDAQ:NVEI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
14.9% of Emerald shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Nuvei shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of Emerald shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Nuvei shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Emerald has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuvei has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Emerald received 129 more outperform votes than Nuvei when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.79% of users gave Emerald an outperform vote while only 57.29% of users gave Nuvei an outperform vote.
Emerald currently has a consensus price target of $8.20, indicating a potential upside of 43.86%. Nuvei has a consensus price target of $32.06, indicating a potential downside of 0.43%. Given Emerald's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Emerald is more favorable than Nuvei.
Nuvei has a net margin of -0.39% compared to Emerald's net margin of -1.09%. Nuvei's return on equity of 6.50% beat Emerald's return on equity.
In the previous week, Emerald had 4 more articles in the media than Nuvei. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Emerald and 3 mentions for Nuvei. Nuvei's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Emerald's score of 0.08 indicating that Nuvei is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuvei has higher revenue and earnings than Emerald. Nuvei is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Emerald, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Nuvei beats Emerald on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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