PYPL vs. RELX, MELI, DASH, FIS, MSCI, CSGP, FICO, GPN, EBAY, and UBER
Should you be buying PayPal stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPal include Relx (RELX), MercadoLibre (MELI), DoorDash (DASH), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Fair Isaac (FICO), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), and Uber Technologies (UBER). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Relx (NYSE:RELX) and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, PayPal had 29 more articles in the media than Relx. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for PayPal and 4 mentions for Relx. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Relx's score of 0.66 indicating that Relx is being referred to more favorably in the media.
15.0% of Relx shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Relx shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PayPal has a net margin of 14.26% compared to PayPal's net margin of 0.00%. Relx's return on equity of 21.58% beat PayPal's return on equity.
Relx has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPal has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than Relx.
PayPal received 1396 more outperform votes than Relx when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.34% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 56.62% of users gave Relx an outperform vote.
PayPal has a consensus target price of $72.73, indicating a potential upside of 12.79%. Given Relx's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PayPal is more favorable than Relx.
Summary
PayPal beats Relx on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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