CPAY vs. PYPL, DASH, FIS, MSCI, FICO, CSGP, TCOM, EBAY, GPN, and KSPI
Should you be buying Corpay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corpay include PayPal (PYPL), DoorDash (DASH), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MSCI (MSCI), Fair Isaac (FICO), CoStar Group (CSGP), Trip.com Group (TCOM), eBay (EBAY), Global Payments (GPN), and Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Corpay (NYSE:CPAY) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) 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 institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
98.8% of Corpay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Corpay shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are held by company 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.
Corpay has a net margin of 26.29% compared to PayPal's net margin of 14.26%. Corpay's return on equity of 36.97% beat PayPal's return on equity.
Corpay has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal received 1777 more outperform votes than Corpay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.78% of users gave Corpay an outperform vote while only 76.34% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote.
Corpay currently has a consensus price target of $341.57, indicating a potential upside of 27.61%. PayPal has a consensus price target of $73.59, indicating a potential upside of 16.83%. Given Corpay's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Corpay is more favorable than PayPal.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Corpay. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Corpay, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PayPal had 58 more articles in the media than Corpay. MarketBeat recorded 59 mentions for PayPal and 1 mentions for Corpay. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Corpay's score of 0.00 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Corpay beats PayPal on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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