PSFE vs. ADV, RPAY, MAX, CNDT, VVI, IMXI, LQDT, ACCD, SEZL, and RGP
Should you be buying Paysafe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paysafe include Advantage Solutions (ADV), Repay (RPAY), MediaAlpha (MAX), Conduent (CNDT), Viad (VVI), International Money Express (IMXI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Accolade (ACCD), Sezzle (SEZL), and Resources Connection (RGP). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Advantage Solutions (NASDAQ:ADV) and Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Advantage Solutions has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paysafe has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Paysafe had 21 more articles in the media than Advantage Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Paysafe and 6 mentions for Advantage Solutions. Paysafe's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Advantage Solutions' score of 0.67 indicating that Advantage Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Advantage Solutions presently has a consensus target price of $3.43, indicating a potential upside of 1.88%. Paysafe has a consensus target price of $22.01, indicating a potential upside of 21.15%. Given Advantage Solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Paysafe is more favorable than Advantage Solutions.
49.8% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.4% of Paysafe shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Advantage Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Paysafe received 22 more outperform votes than Advantage Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 42.67% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote while only 27.78% of users gave Advantage Solutions an outperform vote.
Advantage Solutions has a net margin of -0.36% compared to Advantage Solutions' net margin of -0.82%. Advantage Solutions' return on equity of 15.22% beat Paysafe's return on equity.
Paysafe has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Advantage Solutions. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Advantage Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Paysafe beats Advantage Solutions on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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