MQ vs. PAY, DLO, FLYW, EVTC, PAGS, CDAY, MNDY, GWRE, DOCU, and NICE
Should you be buying Marqeta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marqeta include Paymentus (PAY), DLocal (DLO), Flywire (FLYW), EVERTEC (EVTC), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Ceridian HCM (CDAY), monday.com (MNDY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), DocuSign (DOCU), and NICE (NICE).
Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) and Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Paymentus received 566 more outperform votes than Marqeta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote while only 52.10% of users gave Marqeta an outperform vote.
Paymentus has a net margin of 4.43% compared to Paymentus' net margin of -32.98%. Marqeta's return on equity of 8.74% beat Paymentus' return on equity.
12.6% of Paymentus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Marqeta shares are held by institutional investors. 87.8% of Paymentus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of Marqeta shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paymentus presently has a consensus target price of $19.06, indicating a potential downside of 2.24%. Marqeta has a consensus target price of $7.37, indicating a potential upside of 40.32%. Given Paymentus' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marqeta is more favorable than Paymentus.
In the previous week, Marqeta had 6 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Marqeta and 1 mentions for Paymentus. Marqeta's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Paymentus' score of 0.90 indicating that Paymentus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paymentus has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Marqeta. Marqeta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paymentus has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marqeta has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Paymentus beats Marqeta on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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