CART vs. WEX, FOUR, MMS, TNET, EXLS, GRAB, WU, NVEI, RBA, and CNXC
Should you be buying Maplebear stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Maplebear include WEX (WEX), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Maximus (MMS), TriNet Group (TNET), ExlService (EXLS), Grab (GRAB), Western Union (WU), Nuvei (NVEI), RB Global (RBA), and Concentrix (CNXC). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) and WEX (NYSE:WEX) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
WEX has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maplebear.
WEX has a net margin of 10.21% compared to Maplebear's net margin of 0.00%. WEX's return on equity of 30.92% beat Maplebear's return on equity.
WEX received 467 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.71% of users gave WEX an outperform vote while only 58.00% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Maplebear had 9 more articles in the media than WEX. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Maplebear and 7 mentions for WEX. WEX's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Maplebear's score of 0.46 indicating that WEX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
63.1% of Maplebear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.5% of WEX shares are held by institutional investors. 36.0% of Maplebear shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of WEX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Maplebear currently has a consensus target price of $41.05, suggesting a potential upside of 19.20%. WEX has a consensus target price of $240.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.95%. Given WEX's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WEX is more favorable than Maplebear.
Summary
WEX beats Maplebear on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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