CPAY vs. MELI, RELX, PYPL, DASH, WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, GIB, and AER
Should you be buying Corpay stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Corpay include MercadoLibre (MELI), Relx (RELX), PayPal (PYPL), DoorDash (DASH), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI (GIB), and AerCap (AER). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
Corpay vs.
Corpay (NYSE:CPAY) and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Corpay has a net margin of 26.14% compared to MercadoLibre's net margin of 7.57%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 40.71% beat Corpay's return on equity.
In the previous week, MercadoLibre had 3 more articles in the media than Corpay. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for MercadoLibre and 18 mentions for Corpay. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Corpay's score of 0.82 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MercadoLibre has higher revenue and earnings than Corpay. Corpay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Corpay currently has a consensus price target of $381.43, suggesting a potential upside of 2.84%. MercadoLibre has a consensus price target of $2,247.67, suggesting a potential upside of 22.42%. Given MercadoLibre's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Corpay.
Corpay has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MercadoLibre received 645 more outperform votes than Corpay when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.36% of users gave Corpay an outperform vote while only 65.82% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
98.8% of Corpay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Corpay shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by company 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.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats Corpay on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CPAY) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
