FCFS vs. MMS, RCM, TNET, FOUR, MARA, EXLS, AUR, EXPO, DNB, and NVEI
Should you be buying FirstCash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FirstCash include Maximus (MMS), R1 RCM (RCM), TriNet Group (TNET), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Marathon Digital (MARA), ExlService (EXLS), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Exponent (EXPO), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), and Nuvei (NVEI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and FirstCash (NASDAQ:FCFS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FirstCash has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Maximus had 1 more articles in the media than FirstCash. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Maximus and 2 mentions for FirstCash. Maximus' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat FirstCash's score of 1.19 indicating that FirstCash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
97.2% of Maximus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of FirstCash shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of FirstCash shares are owned by 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.
Maximus currently has a consensus target price of $102.00, suggesting a potential upside of 17.74%. FirstCash has a consensus target price of $142.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.82%. Given Maximus' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FirstCash is more favorable than Maximus.
Maximus pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. FirstCash pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Maximus pays out 31.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstCash pays out 27.3% 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. Maximus has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and FirstCash has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years.
Maximus received 428 more outperform votes than FirstCash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 39.02% of users gave FirstCash an outperform vote.
FirstCash has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maximus. Maximus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstCash, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FirstCash has a net margin of 7.23% compared to FirstCash's net margin of 4.58%. FirstCash's return on equity of 18.02% beat Maximus' return on equity.
Summary
FirstCash beats Maximus on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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