PAYC vs. EA, VEEV, HUBS, MSTR, ANSS, TTWO, NET, MDB, PTC, and MBLY
Should you be buying Paycom Software stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paycom Software include Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), HubSpot (HUBS), MicroStrategy (MSTR), ANSYS (ANSS), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Cloudflare (NET), MongoDB (MDB), PTC (PTC), and Mobileye Global (MBLY). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and Paycom Software (NYSE:PAYC) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Electronic Arts has higher revenue and earnings than Paycom Software. Paycom Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Electronic Arts, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Electronic Arts received 845 more outperform votes than Paycom Software when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.70% of users gave Electronic Arts an outperform vote while only 65.12% of users gave Paycom Software an outperform vote.
Electronic Arts pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Paycom Software pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Electronic Arts pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Paycom Software pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Electronic Arts has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
90.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of Paycom Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Electronic Arts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.5% of Paycom Software shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Paycom Software has a net margin of 26.91% compared to Paycom Software's net margin of 16.83%. Electronic Arts' return on equity of 32.84% beat Paycom Software's return on equity.
In the previous week, Electronic Arts and Electronic Arts both had 15 articles in the media. Paycom Software's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Electronic Arts' score of 0.53 indicating that Electronic Arts is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Electronic Arts presently has a consensus target price of $147.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.63%. Paycom Software has a consensus target price of $246.31, suggesting a potential upside of 69.50%. Given Electronic Arts' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paycom Software is more favorable than Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paycom Software has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Electronic Arts beats Paycom Software on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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