WEX vs. GPN, BR, JKHY, G, EEFT, MMS, EXLS, WU, PAY, and CSGS
Should you be buying WEX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WEX include Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Genpact (G), Euronet Worldwide (EEFT), Maximus (MMS), ExlService (EXLS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), and CSG Systems International (CSGS). These companies are all part of the "data processing & outsourced services" industry.
WEX (NYSE:WEX) and Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
WEX currently has a consensus target price of $240.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.12%. Global Payments has a consensus target price of $149.11, suggesting a potential upside of 46.40%. Given Global Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Global Payments is more favorable than WEX.
97.5% of WEX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.8% of Global Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of WEX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Global Payments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Global Payments has higher revenue and earnings than WEX. Global Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WEX has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Payments has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Global Payments had 1 more articles in the media than WEX. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Global Payments and 7 mentions for WEX. Global Payments' average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat WEX's score of 0.80 indicating that Global Payments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Payments received 571 more outperform votes than WEX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.28% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave WEX an outperform vote.
Global Payments has a net margin of 13.40% compared to WEX's net margin of 10.21%. WEX's return on equity of 30.92% beat Global Payments' return on equity.
Summary
Global Payments beats WEX on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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