MELI vs. FIS, MSCI, CSGP, UBER, GPN, EBAY, Z, PDD, BABA, and SBUX
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Uber Technologies (UBER), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), Zillow Group (Z), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), and Starbucks (SBUX).
Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
In the previous week, Fidelity National Information Services had 11 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services and 11 mentions for MercadoLibre. Fidelity National Information Services' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat MercadoLibre's score of 0.63 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity National Information Services received 116 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.88% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote while only 65.22% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
MercadoLibre has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MercadoLibre has a net margin of 7.17% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of -54.14%. Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity of 39.46% beat MercadoLibre's return on equity.
Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity National Information Services presently has a consensus target price of $78.11, indicating a potential downside of 0.36%. MercadoLibre has a consensus target price of $1,820.38, indicating a potential upside of 4.07%. Given Fidelity National Information Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats Fidelity National Information Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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