LSAK vs. PMTS, PAYS, ARBK, MULN, USIO, EEFT, ADV, PSFE, ECVT, and AMPL
Should you be buying Lesaka Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lesaka Technologies include CPI Card Group (PMTS), Paysign (PAYS), Argo Blockchain (ARBK), Mullen Automotive (MULN), Usio (USIO), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Paysafe (PSFE), Ecovyst (ECVT), and Amplitude (AMPL).
CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) and Lesaka Technologies (NASDAQ:LSAK) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lesaka Technologies has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CPI Card Group had 2 more articles in the media than Lesaka Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for CPI Card Group and 1 mentions for Lesaka Technologies. CPI Card Group's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Lesaka Technologies' score of 0.56 indicating that Lesaka Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CPI Card Group presently has a consensus target price of $35.50, suggesting a potential upside of 35.55%. Given Lesaka Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CPI Card Group is more favorable than Lesaka Technologies.
22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of Lesaka Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Lesaka Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CPI Card Group received 29 more outperform votes than Lesaka Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 85.71% of users gave CPI Card Group an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Lesaka Technologies an outperform vote.
CPI Card Group has a net margin of 4.26% compared to CPI Card Group's net margin of -4.41%. CPI Card Group's return on equity of -13.73% beat Lesaka Technologies' return on equity.
CPI Card Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Lesaka Technologies. Lesaka Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CPI Card Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CPI Card Group beats Lesaka Technologies on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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