FOUR vs. EBAY, CSGP, GPN, BR, CPAY, GRAB, KSPI, RBA, Z, and ZG
Should you be buying Shift4 Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shift4 Payments include eBay (EBAY), CoStar Group (CSGP), Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), RB Global (RBA), Zillow Group (Z), and Zillow Group (ZG). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Shift4 Payments vs.
Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
eBay received 1707 more outperform votes than Shift4 Payments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.37% of users gave eBay an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Shift4 Payments an outperform vote.
Shift4 Payments currently has a consensus price target of $106.90, suggesting a potential downside of 6.34%. eBay has a consensus price target of $62.83, suggesting a potential downside of 5.07%. Given eBay's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe eBay is more favorable than Shift4 Payments.
98.9% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of eBay shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.6% of Shift4 Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of eBay shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
eBay has higher revenue and earnings than Shift4 Payments. eBay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shift4 Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
eBay has a net margin of 19.68% compared to Shift4 Payments' net margin of 4.04%. eBay's return on equity of 30.97% beat Shift4 Payments' return on equity.
In the previous week, eBay had 7 more articles in the media than Shift4 Payments. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for eBay and 13 mentions for Shift4 Payments. Shift4 Payments' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat eBay's score of 0.64 indicating that Shift4 Payments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Shift4 Payments has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, eBay has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
eBay beats Shift4 Payments on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FOUR) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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