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Shift4 Payments (FOUR) Competitors

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$86.64 -1.51 (-1.71%)
Closing price 03/25/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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FOUR vs. BR, CPAY, GPN, KSPI, RBA, GRAB, Z, ZG, AKAM, and CART

Should you be buying Shift4 Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shift4 Payments include Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Corpay (CPAY), Global Payments (GPN), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), RB Global (RBA), Grab (GRAB), Zillow Group (Z), Zillow Group (ZG), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), and Maplebear (CART). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.

Shift4 Payments vs.

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) and Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Broadridge Financial Solutions currently has a consensus target price of $241.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.67%. Shift4 Payments has a consensus target price of $115.30, suggesting a potential upside of 33.08%. Given Shift4 Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Shift4 Payments is more favorable than Broadridge Financial Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Broadridge Financial Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.17
Shift4 Payments
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
13 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71

Broadridge Financial Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Shift4 Payments. Shift4 Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadridge Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Broadridge Financial Solutions$6.68B4.15$698.10M$6.3937.10
Shift4 Payments$3.33B2.32$86.20M$3.0728.22

In the previous week, Broadridge Financial Solutions had 4 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Broadridge Financial Solutions and 14 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Broadridge Financial Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Shift4 Payments' score of 1.32 indicating that Broadridge Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Broadridge Financial Solutions
13 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Shift4 Payments
12 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

90.0% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.6% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Broadridge Financial Solutions received 296 more outperform votes than Shift4 Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.27% of users gave Shift4 Payments an outperform vote while only 49.63% of users gave Broadridge Financial Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Broadridge Financial SolutionsOutperform Votes
402
49.63%
Underperform Votes
408
50.37%
Shift4 PaymentsOutperform Votes
106
61.27%
Underperform Votes
67
38.73%

Broadridge Financial Solutions has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.76, meaning that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Broadridge Financial Solutions has a net margin of 11.36% compared to Shift4 Payments' net margin of 6.89%. Broadridge Financial Solutions' return on equity of 44.40% beat Shift4 Payments' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Broadridge Financial Solutions11.36% 44.40% 12.04%
Shift4 Payments 6.89%29.00%6.69%

Summary

Broadridge Financial Solutions beats Shift4 Payments on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FOUR vs. The Competition

MetricShift4 PaymentsBusiness services IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$7.72B$21.34B$7.61B$19.75B
Dividend YieldN/A2.62%2.52%3.75%
P/E Ratio28.2234.3130.9034.05
Price / Sales2.328.41150.3828.57
Price / Cash14.5732.3031.5117.54
Price / Book7.675.645.024.63
Net Income$86.20M$681.84M$194.85M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.81%0.39%0.52%0.14%
1 Month Performance-10.09%-3.84%-3.37%-1.17%
1 Year Performance28.87%1.88%7.72%7.30%

Shift4 Payments Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FOUR
Shift4 Payments
4.5657 of 5 stars
$86.64
-1.7%
$115.30
+33.1%
+25.2%$7.72B$3.33B28.223,030Positive News
BR
Broadridge Financial Solutions
4.6519 of 5 stars
$231.06
+1.5%
$239.17
+3.5%
+17.1%$27.03B$6.68B36.1514,600Positive News
CPAY
Corpay
3.608 of 5 stars
$348.27
+3.1%
$399.71
+14.8%
N/A$24.46B$3.97B24.9010,500Positive News
GPN
Global Payments
4.9729 of 5 stars
$95.85
+1.7%
$134.33
+40.2%
-25.5%$23.72B$10.11B15.5027,000Positive News
KSPI
Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz
4.1106 of 5 stars
$99.55
+4.1%
$150.67
+51.3%
-20.3%$19.91B$2.52T9.638,772
RBA
RB Global
3.8389 of 5 stars
$97.88
+2.2%
$107.64
+10.0%
+32.3%$18.08B$4.28B48.709,600High Trading Volume
GRAB
Grab
2.7481 of 5 stars
$4.47
+1.5%
$5.62
+25.9%
+44.6%$17.98B$2.80B-223.259,490Positive News
Z
Zillow Group
3.7686 of 5 stars
$71.68
+1.6%
$82.00
+14.4%
+49.2%$17.38B$2.24B-152.425,720Positive News
ZG
Zillow Group
4.2314 of 5 stars
$69.57
+1.6%
$83.00
+19.3%
+48.3%$16.86B$2.24B-147.935,720
AKAM
Akamai Technologies
4.7864 of 5 stars
$83.57
+3.5%
$107.55
+28.7%
-24.6%$12.56B$3.99B25.6410,250Analyst Revision
CART
Maplebear
3.9781 of 5 stars
$40.66
+5.4%
$50.52
+24.3%
+10.1%$10.74B$3.38B27.243,380Positive News
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