MAX vs. PSFE, ADV, RPAY, CNDT, VVI, IMXI, LQDT, ACCD, FLYW, and SEZL
Should you be buying MediaAlpha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MediaAlpha include Paysafe (PSFE), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Repay (RPAY), Conduent (CNDT), Viad (VVI), International Money Express (IMXI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Accolade (ACCD), Flywire (FLYW), and Sezzle (SEZL). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paysafe has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MediaAlpha received 2 more outperform votes than Paysafe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.15% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 42.67% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Paysafe shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Paysafe has a net margin of -0.82% compared to MediaAlpha's net margin of -7.76%. Paysafe's return on equity of 15.22% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
Paysafe has higher revenue and earnings than MediaAlpha. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MediaAlpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MediaAlpha presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Paysafe has a consensus target price of $22.01, suggesting a potential upside of 21.15%. Given Paysafe's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paysafe is more favorable than MediaAlpha.
In the previous week, Paysafe had 24 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Paysafe and 5 mentions for MediaAlpha. Paysafe's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.10 indicating that Paysafe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Paysafe beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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