WNS vs. PAY, FA, FLYW, PAYO, MAX, ADV, ENV, RPAY, CBZ, and PSFE
Should you be buying WNS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WNS include Paymentus (PAY), First Advantage (FA), Flywire (FLYW), Payoneer Global (PAYO), MediaAlpha (MAX), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Envestnet (ENV), Repay (RPAY), CBIZ (CBZ), and Paysafe (PSFE). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) and WNS (NYSE:WNS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Paymentus received 110 more outperform votes than WNS when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.45% of users gave WNS an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote.
Paymentus currently has a consensus price target of $19.06, suggesting a potential upside of 1.45%. WNS has a consensus price target of $72.44, suggesting a potential upside of 40.15%. Given Paymentus' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WNS is more favorable than Paymentus.
12.6% of Paymentus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of WNS shares are held by institutional investors. 87.8% of Paymentus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of WNS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, WNS had 4 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for WNS and 4 mentions for Paymentus. Paymentus' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat WNS's score of 0.30 indicating that WNS is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WNS has higher revenue and earnings than Paymentus. WNS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WNS has a net margin of 10.59% compared to WNS's net margin of 4.43%. Paymentus' return on equity of 22.23% beat WNS's return on equity.
Summary
WNS beats Paymentus on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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