JKHY vs. PSN, CACI, OTEX, SAIC, SGMS, PAYX, FIS, GPN, BR, and WEX
Should you be buying Jack Henry & Associates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jack Henry & Associates include Parsons (PSN), CACI International (CACI), Open Text (OTEX), Science Applications International (SAIC), Scientific Games (SGMS), Paychex (PAYX), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), and WEX (WEX).
Parsons (NYSE:PSN) and Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ:JKHY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Parsons presently has a consensus price target of $83.10, indicating a potential upside of 9.13%. Jack Henry & Associates has a consensus price target of $174.42, indicating a potential upside of 5.91%. Given Jack Henry & Associates' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Parsons is more favorable than Jack Henry & Associates.
Jack Henry & Associates has a net margin of 17.28% compared to Jack Henry & Associates' net margin of 0.49%. Parsons' return on equity of 22.18% beat Jack Henry & Associates' return on equity.
In the previous week, Parsons had 1 more articles in the media than Jack Henry & Associates. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Parsons and 16 mentions for Jack Henry & Associates. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Jack Henry & Associates' score of 0.24 indicating that Jack Henry & Associates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jack Henry & Associates has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Parsons. Jack Henry & Associates is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.0% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are owned by institutional investors. 56.0% of Parsons shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Jack Henry & Associates received 192 more outperform votes than Parsons when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 54.01% of users gave Jack Henry & Associates an outperform vote.
Parsons has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jack Henry & Associates has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Parsons beats Jack Henry & Associates on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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