PAYX vs. SQ, WCN, FIS, PLTR, CPRT, VRSK, NU, IT, SPOT, and EFX
Should you be buying Paychex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paychex include Block (SQ), Waste Connections (WCN), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Copart (CPRT), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), NU (NU), Gartner (IT), Spotify Technology (SPOT), and Equifax (EFX). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) and Block (NYSE:SQ) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Block had 10 more articles in the media than Paychex. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Block and 5 mentions for Paychex. Paychex's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Block's score of 0.80 indicating that Paychex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paychex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Block. Paychex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Block, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
83.5% of Paychex shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Block shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of Paychex shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Block shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Block received 1076 more outperform votes than Paychex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.52% of users gave Block an outperform vote while only 42.61% of users gave Paychex an outperform vote.
Paychex presently has a consensus target price of $123.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.11%. Block has a consensus target price of $87.59, indicating a potential upside of 21.22%. Given Block's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Block is more favorable than Paychex.
Paychex has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Block has a beta of 2.57, suggesting that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paychex has a net margin of 31.86% compared to Block's net margin of 2.18%. Paychex's return on equity of 46.14% beat Block's return on equity.
Summary
Paychex and Block tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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