JKHY vs. PSN, CACI, OTEX, SAIC, GDDY, LDOS, IOT, FLEX, NICE, and TOST
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), GoDaddy (GDDY), Leidos (LDOS), Samsara (IOT), Flex (FLEX), NICE (NICE), and Toast (TOST).
Parsons (NYSE:PSN) and Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ:JKHY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.8% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are held by institutional investors. 56.0% of Parsons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Jack Henry & Associates shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
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.
Parsons currently has a consensus target price of $83.10, indicating a potential upside of 7.37%. Jack Henry & Associates has a consensus target price of $174.42, indicating a potential upside of 7.29%. Given Jack Henry & Associates' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Parsons is more favorable than Jack Henry & Associates.
Parsons has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jack Henry & Associates has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Parsons had 21 more articles in the media than Jack Henry & Associates. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Parsons and 10 mentions for Jack Henry & Associates. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Jack Henry & Associates' score of 0.31 indicating that Jack Henry & Associates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Parsons beats Jack Henry & Associates on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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