StoneCo (STNE) Competitors

Rentokil Initial (NYSE:RTO) and StoneCo (NASDAQ:STNE) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in RTO or STNE?

9.9% of Rentokil Initial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of StoneCo shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of StoneCo shares are owned by company 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in RTO or STNE?

StoneCo received 193 more outperform votes than Rentokil Initial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.41% of users gave StoneCo an outperform vote while only 35.71% of users gave Rentokil Initial an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Rentokil Initial	Outperform Votes 5 35.71%	Underperform Votes 9 64.29%
StoneCo	Outperform Votes 198 56.41%	Underperform Votes 153 43.59%

Do analysts rate RTO or STNE?

StoneCo has a consensus target price of $14.50, indicating a potential upside of 26.64%. Given StoneCo's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe StoneCo is more favorable than Rentokil Initial.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rentokil Initial	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	2 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.71
StoneCo	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.70

Which has more volatility & risk, RTO or STNE?

Rentokil Initial has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, StoneCo has a beta of 2.33, suggesting that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, RTO or STNE?

Rentokil Initial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than StoneCo. StoneCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rentokil Initial, 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
Rentokil Initial	$5.44B	2.12	$473.93M	$1.51	15.09
StoneCo	$12.74B	0.28	$318.89M	-$0.85	-13.47

Is RTO or STNE more profitable?

StoneCo has a net margin of 16.02% compared to Rentokil Initial's net margin of 0.00%. StoneCo's return on equity of 13.92% beat Rentokil Initial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rentokil Initial	N/A	N/A	N/A
StoneCo	16.02%	13.92%	4.09%

Does the media favor RTO or STNE?

In the previous week, StoneCo had 27 more articles in the media than Rentokil Initial. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for StoneCo and 5 mentions for Rentokil Initial. Rentokil Initial's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat StoneCo's score of 0.77 indicating that Rentokil Initial is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Rentokil Initial	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
StoneCo	14 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	11 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

StoneCo beats Rentokil Initial on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.