PSN vs. KD, AUR, WPP, PATH, ESTC, CLH, IPG, CNM, GFL, and DOCU
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Kyndryl (KD), Aurora Innovation (AUR), WPP (WPP), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), Clean Harbors (CLH), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Core & Main (CNM), GFL Environmental (GFL), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Parsons (NYSE:PSN) and Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Parsons currently has a consensus price target of $83.10, indicating a potential upside of 8.61%. Kyndryl has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.63%. Given Parsons' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Parsons is more favorable than Kyndryl.
Parsons has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Kyndryl. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 3 more articles in the media than Parsons. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Kyndryl and 11 mentions for Parsons. Kyndryl's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Parsons' score of 0.19 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Parsons has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
98.0% of Parsons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Kyndryl shares are held by institutional investors. 56.0% of Parsons shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Parsons received 97 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
Parsons has a net margin of 0.49% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -2.12%. Parsons' return on equity of 11.27% beat Kyndryl's return on equity.
Summary
Parsons beats Kyndryl on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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