Repay (RPAY) Competitors

Repay (NASDAQ:RPAY) and JOYY (NASDAQ:YY) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in RPAY or YY?

82.7% of Repay shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of JOYY shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Repay shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 43.0% of JOYY shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate RPAY or YY?

Repay currently has a consensus price target of $10.31, suggesting a potential upside of 88.18%. JOYY has a consensus price target of $35.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.76%. Given Repay's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Repay is more favorable than JOYY.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Repay	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.63
JOYY	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has better valuation & earnings, RPAY or YY?

JOYY has higher revenue and earnings than Repay. Repay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JOYY, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Repay	$313.04M	1.71	-$110.49M	-$0.12	-45.67
JOYY	$2.24B	1.00	$301.82M	-$3.10	-13.40

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer RPAY or YY?

JOYY received 449 more outperform votes than Repay when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.03% of users gave JOYY an outperform vote while only 62.28% of users gave Repay an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Repay	Outperform Votes 104 62.28%	Underperform Votes 63 37.72%
JOYY	Outperform Votes 553 67.03%	Underperform Votes 272 32.97%

Does the media refer more to RPAY or YY?

In the previous week, JOYY had 2 more articles in the media than Repay. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for JOYY and 4 mentions for Repay. JOYY's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Repay's score of 1.24 indicating that JOYY is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Repay	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
JOYY	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is RPAY or YY more profitable?

JOYY has a net margin of 9.02% compared to Repay's net margin of -25.53%. Repay's return on equity of 8.73% beat JOYY's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Repay	-25.53%	8.73%	4.65%
JOYY	9.02%	4.64%	2.96%

Which has more volatility and risk, RPAY or YY?

Repay has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JOYY has a beta of 0.21, suggesting that its stock price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Repay and JOYY tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.