PSFE vs. ALIT, WU, CNXC, CBZ, ENV, ACVA, DLO, FA, PAY, and PAYO
Should you be buying Paysafe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paysafe include Alight (ALIT), Western Union (WU), Concentrix (CNXC), CBIZ (CBZ), Envestnet (ENV), ACV Auctions (ACVA), DLocal (DLO), First Advantage (FA), Paymentus (PAY), and Payoneer Global (PAYO). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Alight (NYSE:ALIT) and Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Alight currently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 54.84%. Paysafe has a consensus price target of $22.01, suggesting a potential upside of 21.08%. Given Paysafe's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alight is more favorable than Paysafe.
Alight received 2 more outperform votes than Paysafe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.27% of users gave Alight an outperform vote while only 42.67% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote.
Alight has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paysafe has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paysafe has a net margin of -0.82% compared to Paysafe's net margin of -9.19%. Alight's return on equity of 15.26% beat Paysafe's return on equity.
Paysafe has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alight. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alight, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alight had 4 more articles in the media than Paysafe. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alight and 0 mentions for Paysafe. Paysafe's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alight's score of 0.80 indicating that Alight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
96.7% of Alight shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Paysafe shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Alight shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Alight beats Paysafe on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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