FLYW vs. EVTC, PAY, CATM, QFIN, RPAY, CART, WEX, ETSY, HQY, and LYFT
Should you be buying Flywire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flywire include EVERTEC (EVTC), Paymentus (PAY), Cardtronics (CATM), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Repay (RPAY), Maplebear (CART), WEX (WEX), Etsy (ETSY), HealthEquity (HQY), and Lyft (LYFT).
Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) and EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Flywire currently has a consensus price target of $30.40, suggesting a potential upside of 77.26%. EVERTEC has a consensus price target of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 18.20%. Given Flywire's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Flywire is more favorable than EVERTEC.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to Flywire's net margin of -2.63%. EVERTEC's return on equity of 29.86% beat Flywire's return on equity.
Flywire has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Flywire had 5 more articles in the media than EVERTEC. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Flywire and 1 mentions for EVERTEC. Flywire's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat EVERTEC's score of 1.00 indicating that Flywire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
EVERTEC received 206 more outperform votes than Flywire when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.37% of users gave Flywire an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Flywire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EVERTEC has higher revenue and earnings than Flywire. Flywire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EVERTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
EVERTEC beats Flywire on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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