BFH vs. FLYW, GOTU, RAMP, PAYO, LSPD, HNI, STGW, PAY, CLBT, and GEO
Should you be buying Bread Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bread Financial include Flywire (FLYW), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), LiveRamp (RAMP), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), HNI (HNI), Stagwell (STGW), Paymentus (PAY), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), and The GEO Group (GEO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) and Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Flywire presently has a consensus price target of $31.29, suggesting a potential upside of 88.47%. Bread Financial has a consensus price target of $39.17, suggesting a potential downside of 5.76%. Given Bread Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Flywire is more favorable than Bread Financial.
Bread Financial has a net margin of 8.08% compared to Bread Financial's net margin of -2.63%. Flywire's return on equity of 14.44% beat Bread Financial's return on equity.
Bread Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Flywire. Flywire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bread Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bread Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Flywire. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Bread Financial and 9 mentions for Flywire. Bread Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Flywire's score of 0.38 indicating that Flywire is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Flywire has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bread Financial has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.5% of Bread Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Flywire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bread Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Flywire received 69 more outperform votes than Bread Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.03% of users gave Flywire an outperform vote while only 15.22% of users gave Bread Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Bread Financial beats Flywire on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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