WNS vs. PAY, FA, FLYW, PAYO, MAX, ADV, ENV, RPAY, CBZ, and PSFE
Should you be buying WNS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WNS include Paymentus (PAY), First Advantage (FA), Flywire (FLYW), Payoneer Global (PAYO), MediaAlpha (MAX), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Envestnet (ENV), Repay (RPAY), CBIZ (CBZ), and Paysafe (PSFE). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
WNS (NYSE:WNS) and Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
WNS presently has a consensus target price of $72.44, suggesting a potential upside of 40.15%. Paymentus has a consensus target price of $19.06, suggesting a potential upside of 1.45%. Given WNS's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe WNS is more favorable than Paymentus.
In the previous week, WNS had 4 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for WNS and 4 mentions for Paymentus. Paymentus' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat WNS's score of 0.17 indicating that Paymentus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WNS has higher revenue and earnings than Paymentus. WNS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.4% of WNS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Paymentus shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of WNS shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 87.8% of Paymentus shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WNS has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Paymentus' net margin of 4.43%. WNS's return on equity of 22.23% beat Paymentus' return on equity.
Paymentus received 110 more outperform votes than WNS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.45% of users gave WNS an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote.
Summary
WNS beats Paymentus on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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